Umm al-Nakhl sahwa chief assassinated

DIALA / IraqiNews.com: Gunmen assassinated the chief of the sahwa (awakening) tribal forces in Umm al-Nakhl area, north of the city of Baaquba, on Wednesday, an official security source in Diala said. “Gunmen suspected members of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) network intercepted Abdulsattar al-Tai’e, the chief of the sahwa forces in Umm al-Nakhl, al-Khalis district, (15 km) north of Baaquba, and showered him with bullets, killing him instantly,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. Baaquba, the capital city of the restive province of Diala, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad. Earlier in the province of Salah al-Din on Wednesday, an official of the Samarra sahwa forces survived an attempt on his life with an improvised explosive device attached to his vehicle east of the city. “Raheem Muzieb al-Bazi, the official in charge of al-Jabiriya sahwa forces, east of Samarra, escaped the attempt as the IED went off after he went out of his car and entered his house,” a local sahwa source told IraqiNews.com. “The blast left a woman who happened to be near the site wounded. She was rushed to the Tikrit Teaching Hospital for treatment,” he added. The source said that Bazi’s house was severely damaged in the blast. The city of Samarra lies 120 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (S) 1