Gunman kills 'one of the best' explosives experts

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BAGHDAD — Haqy Asaad made a living snipping wires off bombs around Baghdad.

He was once flung back from the force of a roadside bomb that detonated prematurely, killing a colleague but only slightly wounding him.

In July, he carefully defused an explosives vest worn on a would-be suicide bomber outside the Green Zone, the fortified area housing U.S. and some Iraqi government offices.

He earned the nickname "Robot" from U.S. advisers for his dogged disarming of insurgents' bombs and was profiled in USA TODAY in July.

USA Today

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1. There was a story about him on TV a couple of weeks ago

and he said he probably was a target but he wanted to keep doing his job.

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2. A professional guy, sort of a tragedy.

But there is plenty of tragedy in Iraq these days.
Sigh.