Senior Iraqi ruler killed by drive-by assassination
299475
A senior member of the US-backed Iraqi government was assasinated in a drive-by shooting by insurgents today. Deputy Governor of Baghdad Hatem Karim
74619
Baghdad governor Ali al-Haidri was  assassinated by gunmen in the capital on Tuesday, police and  hospital sources said.
58298
Iraqi police have said the drive-by shooting that killed Hatem Karim occurred in the southern Dora district of the Iraqi capital. The killing is the latest in a series of attacks targeting officials linked to Iraq&#39;s US-backed interim government.
516369
The leader of local Sunni tribes in Iraq who have joined American and Iraqi forces in fighting extremist Sunni militants was killed by a bomb today, Iraqi police officials said.
327768
Baghdad, Nov. 1 (NNN): Gunmen on Monday assassinated the deputy governor of Baghdad Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah and injured four of his bodyguards, in a drive-by shooting in the southern Dora district of the capital, an Interior Ministry spokesman here said.
496435
Gunmen assassinated Baghdad's deputy  police chief outside his home in southern Baghdad on Monday, a  police source said.
714690
The most prominent figure in a revolt of Sunni sheiks against Al Qaeda in Iraq was killed today in an explosion near his home in Anbar province, police said.
442655
Baghdad's deputy police chief is killed outside his home in the south of the Iraqi capital, police say
19526
Gunmen have killed the representative of Iraq's most senior Shiite Muslim cleric along with his son and four bodyguards in a town south of Baghdad, an official in the cleric's office said Thursday.
37516
SAMARRA, Iraq  - The acting police chief in the  northern Iraqi town of Samarra was killed Sunday, a police  official said.
618134
Gunmen on Monday assassinated a member of an influential Sunni clerics' group that has called for a boycott of national elections, just a day after Iraqi officials announced the balloting would be held Jan. 30 in spite of rising violence in Iraq.
504680
Gunmen killed the Baghdad governor in Iraq's highest-profile assassination in eight months and a suicide bomber killed 10 people near the Green Zone on Tuesday in an escalating campaign to wreck a Jan. 30 election.
601717
Gunmen killed a senior Iraqi official  on Thursday who had led efforts to restore the country's  war-ravaged telephone network after spending nearly two decades  in jail under Saddam Hussein.
166695
BAGHDAD - A Sunni Muslim tribal leader who was one of the highest-profile US allies in Iraq was killed in a bomb blast yesterday, an assassination that could undermine US attempts to recruit former foes to stabilize the country.
652090
11 December 2004 -- At least three high-ranking Iraqi police officials were killed today as scattered violence was seen throughout the country.
698642
BAGHDAD, Nov. 18 -- Gunmen killed a prominent Shiite politician Saturday in what police and others said appeared to have been a sectarian assassination.
505630
Gunmen killed the deputy governor of Baghdad today on his way to work, Iraqi officials said. Hatim Kamil was assassinated in a drive-by shooting this morning, said Baghdad Governor Ali al-Haidari.