Assassination of the governor of al-Basra
Iraq, Politics, 7/20/2004

Unidentified gunmen assassinated the governor of al-Basra, Hazem Tawfiq al-Einji, while he was in his office today morning.

His son, Issam said that the gunmen opened fire at his father's car, while it was stationed at an inspection point close to the house which also resulted in strongly wounding one of his guards.

He explained that preliminary information indicate that the security forces arrested the attackers. Worthy mentioning that al-Einji was a deputy for the governor of al-Basra, but became acting governor after the governor, judge Wael Abul Latif was appointed a minister for governorates affairs in the Interim Iraqi government in June.

Concerning acts of assassination, the director general of the Iraqi ministry of defense, Issam al-Dujeili, was killed yesterday in Baghdad when unidentified persons opened fire at him as he was leaving his house.

Monday witnessed different attacks in Iraq. Nine persons were killed and other 62 wounded in a booby trapped car explosion before a police center in al-Ilaam quarters in Baghdad.

One British soldier was killed and other two injured in a British warplane crash in al Basra to the south of Iraq. A spokesman for the army that it was not clear yet the implications of the plane crash, ruling out that it was attacked.

In al-Najaf, the Iraqi police found a weapons arsenal in Baher al- Najaf to the east of the holy city. Lt, Gen. Hussein Ghazalli said that the arsenal is composed of 215 missiles and 194 mortar shelling.

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