From The Associated Press, 7/16/03:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationwo...orld-headlines

Pro-American Mayor, Son Killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) --

The pro-American mayor of the western city of Hadithah was shot and
killed driving through the town Wednesday in escalating violence in
Iraq that also took the lives of a U.S. soldier in a supply convoy and
an 8-year-old Iraqi in an attack on U.S. forces guarding a Baghdad
bank.

The U.S. military confirmed a report by the Arab satellite network
Al-Jazeera that Mayor Mohammed Nayil al-Jurayfi's car was shot up by
unidentified attackers as he drove through the city of about 150,000
about 150 miles northwest of Baghdad.

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The quagmire deepens.

Harry