Local council member shot and killed in southern Iraq (Basra)

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Gunmen killed a city council member in Iraq's southern city of Basra, a party official said Wednesday.

City council member Radi Abdul-Zahra al-Hilaifi was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen Tuesday night while driving in Basra, the party official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Al-Hilaifi was the head of a small, local Islamic party that opposed Saddam Hussein. Al-Hilaifi fled Iraq in 1991 after Saddam crushed an uprising by Shiite Muslim in southern Iraq and returned to Iraq after the U.S. invasion.

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