{"id":1185,"date":"2011-01-11T14:30:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T14:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2011-01-11T14:30:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T14:30:35","slug":"hit-men-kill-240-iraqi-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/01\/11\/1185\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hit men kill 240 Iraqi officials&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"terror_03\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/terror_03.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"166\" \/>Iraqi Interior Ministry&#8217;s Under-Secretary for Security Major General Hussein Kamal says nearly 240 security men and intelligence officials have recently been killed by hit men.<br \/>Nearly 360 Iraqis, including 240 high-level security officials, have been killed by so-called &#8216;hit men,&#8217; a recent phenomenon that has taken root in Iraq, General Kamal added on Tuesday, the Iraqi daily Al-Zaman, a newspaper published simultaneously in London and Baghdad, reported.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tactic involves utilizing silencers on pistols and rifles to enable an attacker to silently kill their victim and then flee without being noticed, the Iraqi official added.<br \/>Such weapons were produced during the Baath regime; however, there is a possibility that they are smuggled into the country from the porous northern, eastern and southern borders, General Kamal explained.<br \/>The deputy Iraqi interior minister further added that Iraqi counter-terrorism forces were taking measures to track down the attackers supposedly belonging to al-Qaeda and the Baath Party of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.<br \/>The Iraqi Council of Ministers has agreed to recruit 200,000 policemen and interior ministry staff for better protecting Baghdad, Kamal said earlier.<br \/>The force will approximately double the number of the current policemen in the Iraqi capital.<br \/>Militant threats and a lack of hotel space for delegations pose stiff challenges to Iraq&#8217;s plans to host for the first time in 20 years the annual Arab League meeting on March 23.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Press TV<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi Interior Ministry&#8217;s Under-Secretary for Security Major General Hussein Kamal says nearly 240 security men and intelligence officials have recently been killed by hit men.Nearly 360 Iraqis, including 240 high-level security officials, have been killed by so-called &#8216;hit men,&#8217; a recent phenomenon that has taken root in Iraq, General Kamal added on Tuesday, the Iraqi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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