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BAGHDAD, April 8 (KUNA) -- Unknown gunmen assassinated on Friday the
manager of Al-Masar television network, Taha Al-Alawi, and the head of the
department political prisoners, Eid Thiab, in southern Baghdad, police said.
Gunmen in a car opened fire from silencer-equipped guns at the two men in
the district of Ouwairej in the southern sector of the city, killing the pair
instantly.
Al-Masar is run by Al-Daawa party, the number-one ally of Prime Minister
Nouri Al-Maliki.
Such attacks have recently escalated in the country. (end)
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