Falluja mosque’s sheikh dies of wounds

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: Sheikh Ihsan Abdulatief al-Douri has died of wounds he sustained in a bomb explosion on Wednesday, a medical source said on Thursday. “The sheikh died on Thursday morning (July 29) of wounds he sustained yesterday when a bomb exploded near his car while he was leaving al-Rawi mosque in central Falluja,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. A police source had said that a bomb exploded near the car of Sheikh Ihsan Abdulatief in al-Andalus neighborhood, central Falluja, killing one person, and injuring eight, including two children. The sheikh is a member of the Association of Muslims Scholars (AMS). Falluja, Anbar province, lies 45 k west of Baghdad. SH (P)/SR 2