Iraqi MP (deputy chairman of the Iraqi parliament's human rights committee) dies in mosque attack

Source: Al Jazeera English

At least five people, including a Sunni member of Iraq's parliament, have been killed in an attack on a mosque in the capital Baghdad.

Twelve people were also hurt in the assault on al-Shawaf mosque in the west of the city on Friday, officials said.

Police identified the MP as Harith al-Ubaidi, a Sunni politician who headed the Accordance Front, Iraq's biggest Sunni bloc.

Al-Ubaidi was deputy chairman of the Iraqi parliament's human rights committee.

"A young man entered the mosque, shot down the MP and his bodyguard, and then threw a grenade that killed three people and wounded 12," an interior ministry official said.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/200961211156420617.html

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Sounds like a deliberate assassinarion. Things seem to be spiralling out of control again in Iraq.