Iraqi Oil Ministry Official Gunned down

World | May 19, 2005, Thursday // 00:00

An official from Iraq's Oil Ministry was gunned down Thursday morning in western Baghdad, police said. Ali Hameed, a director general at the Oil Ministry, was killed outside his home as he was leaving for work, the police official said. Insurgents have stepped up assassinations of Iraqi officials and suicide bombings since a new government was announced late last month, killing more than 400 people.

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