AP: Gunmen assassinate Khaldiya police chief

[Atlant]

Gunmen assassinate Khaldiya police chief

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Gunmen assassinate Khaldiya police chie

HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer Monday, September 15, 2003

Three gunmen, their faces covered with red and white Arab headdresses, assassinated the police chief of this Sunni Triangle town Monday in an ambush at a traffic circle.

Col. Khedeir Mekhalef Ali, 48, the Khaldiya police chief, was shot at least 25 times, according to his driver, who was wounded in the attack along with Ali's bodyguard.

Ali was driving to his home in Fallujah, about 50 miles west of Baghdad, when the assailants ambushed his vehicle as it slowed at the traffic circle.

The three attackers opened fire with a machine gun, shot one of the tires of the chief's car and then approached the vehicle and shot him, said his driver, 47-year-old Rabia'a Kamash. He spoke to The Associated Press at the Fallujah General Hospital were he was being treated for wounds to his head and shoulder.

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[pfitz59]

1. Another Saddam retread?

Aren't most of the cops former saddam goons?

[jamesinca]

2. I think they are

But the U.S. has had to resort to putting the Baath party in positions like his because they are the only ones around that have the training and skills currently. We took out Saddam and reinstalled his party.