Lawyer gunned down in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: A lawyer was killed by unknown gunmen while he was heading to work in southwestern Kirkuk city, a local police chief said on Monday. “The gunmen fled to an unknown destination after the operation,” Brigadier Sarhad Qader told IraqiNews.com, providing no further information. Kirkuk, 250 km (156 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, sits on the ruins of a 5,000-year-old settlement. Because of the strategic geographical location of the city, Kirkuk was the battle ground for three empires, Assyria, Babylonia and Media which controlled the city at various times. SS (P) 1