Senior officer assassinated in Baghdad

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: A high-ranking police officer was assassinated by unidentified gunmen in western Baghdad while a Sunni Endowment employee wounded in the northeastern part of the Iraqi capital on Sunday, a security source said. “Gunmen shot dead Brig. Moaz Abdullah over the Ibn Hayyan Bridge, near al-Muthanna Airport in western Baghdad, and escaped to an unknown place,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. Meanwhile, the source said, an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in the area of al-Suleikh, northeastern Baghdad, wounding an employee working for the Sunni Endowment. He did not give more information about the two incidents. AmR (P) 2