| code: 171520 | Date: 2009/11/09 | source: ET | print |
Shia politician gunned down outside northern Iraqi home
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Kirkuk, Iraq - Gunmen fatally shot a confidant of Shia cleric and political leader Moqtada al-Sadr outside the man's house in northern Iraq. The representative in Kirkuk of al-Sadr's political movement was gunned down by unknown perpetrators Sunday night, police said.
A supporter of the Sadrist Movement, which espouses a mixture of Shiite Islamist and Iraqi nationalist positions, accused police of not providing the politician with sufficient protection.
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