Gunmen assassinate Shiite official in Basra
Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Iraq's biggest Shiite party in the southern city of Basra, police said.
Sheik Salim al-Dirraji was gunned down Friday in the Hayania district, which had been a stronghold of the Mahdi Army of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr until a security crackdown last spring. (AP)
