Unknown gunmen killed in separate attacks in northern Iraq a senior police officer and a former member of the Baath party, police said on Wednesday.
Police General Hikmat Mahmud Mohammad was shot dead by three men in an Opel car as he left his house at 7:30 am (0430 GMT) in Mosul, Lieutenant Colonel Abdul Azel Hazem Khafudi told AFP.
Lakhdar Brahimi, who authored a UN report on Iraq released this week, said his fact-finding team met with between 400 and 600 Iraqis during its mission, and he felt no strong opposition to delaying elections until late this year or early next year.
"The impression we had was that we very conclusively demonstrated to them that no credible elections are really possible before the 30th of June," Brahimi told reporters at the Japan National Press Club. "The impression we had was that all our interlocutors - and there were hundreds of them - agreed with us."
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