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BAGHDAD, Feb 13 (KUNA) -- Unidentified gunmen assassinated on Friday a
senior Defense Ministry official after storming his house in Baghdad's Jihad
district.
A security source in the Iraqi police told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that
unknown armed men attacked at eight o'clock in the morning the house of
Brigadier Thamer Yosef, director of works at the Iraqi Defense Ministry,
killing him along with his son before fleeing.
This is the first assassination against a security official, after several
months of relative stability experienced in the security situation. (end)
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