Traffic officer assassinated in Baghdad

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: A police brigadier on Monday was gunned down inside his car in downtown Baghdad, according to a police source. “An operations director in the traffic police, Abdulhussein Mohsin al-Kadhemi, died after unknown gunmen had opened fire on him while he was inside his car on al-Saadon Street, downtown Baghdad,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The attack is the second to target a traffic official in 24 hours. A traffic director, Maj. Gen. Jaafar Abd Jaafar, survived an assassination attempt on Sunday (May 10), when a roadside improvised explosive device (IED) targeted his vehicle in al-Huriyya Square, downtown Baghdad. SS (P) 1