Judge killed, Muslim Scholars commision attacked

Four Iraqis were killed including one judge at the hands unidentified gunmen in different attacks took place in Baghdad and its north.

A source in the Iraqi ministry of defense, who wanted to remain anonymous, said that gunmen assassinated Jasem Wahib Dweij, the judge of the court of appeals in al-Karakh, together with his driver, while he was leaving his house from al-Doura quarters south of Baghdad.

In al-Dour area north of Baghdad, one Iraqi soldier was killed while trying to defuse a land mine which was implanted on the roadside. In Beiji, one Iraqi civilian was killed by gunmen inside his office that is specialized in translation in the center of the city.

In al-Anbar, gunmen opened fire at the governor of al-Anbar and a group of Sunni men of religion while meeting in al-Ramadi. Eyewitnesses said that the governor Mamoun al-Alwani was holding talks with members of the Muslim Scholars in the state's grand mosque in al-Ramadi when gunmen opened fire.

Chairman of the Muslim Ccholars commission in Ramadi, Thamer al-Duleimi, survived the attack, but the chairman of the Sunni Waqf court, Zaher al-Obeidi, and his assistant were hit in the attack.

Meantime, Leith Kebbeh, the spokesman for the Iraqi prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said that the American army's finding of chemicals in Iraq is a sort of message from the "terrorists" to scare the Iraqis prior to the people's referendum on the draft constitution expected on the mid of October.