Gunmen assassinated an Iraqi judge as he was leaving his home in
eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, police sources said. The judge, identified
as Qais Hashim Shameri, was killed along with his son in a roadside
ambush, the sources said. It was the latest killing in a campaign of
attacks by insurgents seeking to disrupt elections set for Sunday. The
shooting followed the Iraqi government's announcement on Monday of the
capture of a senior aide to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who
tops the U.S. military's wanted list in Iraq and has declared all-out
war on the elections. Insurgents have assassinated Baghdad's provincial
governor and the capital's deputy police chief in recent weeks. [more]
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