Gunmen attack Iraq's Anbar governor, clerics

[Eugene]

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-08-18T100116Z_01_WRI252296_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ.xml

Gunmen attack Iraq's Anbar governor, clerics
Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:01 AM BST

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Insurgents opened fire on the governor of
Iraq's Anbar province and a group of prominent Sunni Muslim clerics as
they were meeting in Ramadi on Thursday, causing casualties, witnesses
said.

Witnesses said Anbar Governor Mamoun al-Alwani was holding talks with
members of the Muslim Clerics Association in Ramadi's main Al Dawla
al-Kabeer mosque when the gunmen opened fire, the witnesses said.

The governor and the head of the Muslim Clerics Association in Ramadi,
Thamir al-Dulaimi, escaped injury but Dhahir al-Obeidi, head of the
Sunni Endowment organisation, was wounded along with his deputy, they
said.

[Roland99]

1. I bet this has something to do with it

State Dept. Warned of Poor Iraq Planning
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/17/AR2005081701779.html

[Ian David]

2. Clerics lose saving throw vs bullets, take double damage,