Kuwaiti parliament invites al-Samarraie to visit Kuwait

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraq’s parliament’s Speaker, Iyad al-Samarraie, received at his office in Baghdad, Kuwaiti Ambassador to Iraq, Ali al-Muamen, who presented his condolences on the assassination of lawmaker Hareth al-Ubeidi, who was gunned down inside a mosque in the capital on Friday (June 12), inviting the speaker to visit Kuwait. “The ambassador conveyed the condolences of the Speaker of Kuwaiti Umma Council (parliament), Jassem al-Khurafi, and his invitation to al-Samarraie to visit Kuwait,” said a statement of the media office of the parliament received by IraqiNews.com news agency. On Friday (June 12), a security source said Ubeidi was assassinated by an unidentified gunman inside al-Shawaf mosque in Baghdad’s district of al-Yarmuk. “A gunman was hiding at one of the restrooms inside the mosque of al-Shawaf in al-Yarmuk, southwestern Baghdad, and opened fire from his Walther gun at Ubeidi, a legislator from the (Sunni) Iraqi Accord Front (IAF), who was then leading worshippers for the Friday congregational prayers,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The IAF had elected Ubeidi, a leading member of the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP), by majority in early May to be the head of its parliamentary bloc, succeeding the incumbent Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Iyad al-Samarraie. SH (S) 1