Aide to Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Sistani killed

Source: Reuters
06 Jun 2007 07:30:27 GMT
NAJAF, Iraq, June 6 (Reuters) - A local representative of
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the reclusive spiritual leader
of Iraq's Shi'ite majority, was gunned down outside his home,
Sistani's office and police said on Wednesday.
Raheem al-Hasnawi, who represented Sistani in the town of
al-Mishkhab, 40 km (25 miles) north of the holy Shi'ite city
of Najaf, was killed late on Tuesday, they said.
A spokesman for Sistani's office said three gunmen riding in
a car shot Hasnawi outside his home in al-Mishkhab.
"He was killed immediately," the spokesman said.

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