U.S.-allied Iraqi politician kills 2 U.S. troops, wounds 4

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U.S.-allied Iraqi politician kills 2 U.S. troops, wounds 4

By Mohammed al Dulaimy and Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers

MADAIN, Iraq — A U.S.-allied Iraqi council member sprayed American troops with gunfire Monday, killing two soldiers and wounding three and an interpreter, Iraqi authorities and witnesses said. The attack occurred minutes after they emerged from a weekly joint meeting on reconstruction in this volatile town southeast of Baghdad.

Raed Mahmoud Ajil, a former high school principal in his mid-40s, was known as a respected city council member and devoted educator who'd recently returned to Iraq after completing his master's degree in India, stunned colleagues said. U.S. troops shot and killed him at the scene.

Ajil's colleagues said they could think of no motive for the deadly rampage, which is thought to be the first incident of a U.S.-allied Iraqi politician carrying out such an attack. Ajil comes from a distinguished Sunni Muslim family. His brother is security chief for the Iraqi Ministry of Justice and a cousin is a high-ranking judge, relatives said.

Ajil's family said that he'd suffered from bouts of depression and sporadic epileptic seizures, which he masked in his role as a public servant. Relatives knew him to be friendly to U.S. troops and said he had no qualms about working alongside them, even though many in this mixed Sunni-Shiite Muslim town view American forces as occupiers.

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Where is the 24/7 media coverage of this?

What does 100-years McCain have to say?

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1. But the surge is working!!

Right?!?

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2. Four Americans, Italian, six Iraqis killed in Baghdad blast

Four Americans, Italian, six Iraqis killed in Baghdad blast

by Jay Deshmukh

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A massive bomb ripped through a municipal office in Baghdad's Shiite bastion of Sadr City on Tuesday, killing four Americans, an Italian and six Iraqis, officials said.

The devastating attack which the US military blamed on Shiite extremists occurred mid-morning shortly before district council elections were to take place, an Iraqi security official said.

One US soldier, three members of the district council and seven other Iraqis were wounded in the blast, which caused large destruction in the building, US military and Iraqi security officials said.

The American military said it detained a suspect soon after the attack.

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