Breaking: Gunmen Who Assasinated Iraqi Governor Yesterday Arrested

August 21st, 2007 Post From Pat Dollard.

When caught near the scene yesterday, one of the fearless Jihadis quickly rolled over on his buddies. You won’t find this story in the MSM or event the AP yet, because they suck and don’t know where to look. Or maybe they’d just rather report the bad news instead of the good. Let’s see if they pick up on this.

(VOI): “Security forces managed to arrest some of the Mahdi Army group that gunned down the governor of Muthanna on Monday,” Brigadier Kadhem al-Jayashi said, noting that the forces still hunting down the rest of the perpetrators.

The policeman refused to unveil the number of the arrested gunmen or their names, asserting that the “details would be announced in the next two days.”
A police source told VOI earlier that security forces arrested one of those who allegedly took part in the assassination of the governor near to the scene.
“The man confessed of perpetrating the attack with other gunmen,” the source also said.

Muthanna Governor Muhammad al-Hassani was killed when an explosive device went off near his motorcade while exiting the city of al-Rumeitha on Monday morning.

Hassani, who occupied the post of Muthanna governor after the fall of the former regime in 2003, was a member in Badr Organization, once the military wing of Shiite leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim’s Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC). Hassani had been in a brutal struggle with Al Sadr’s men for control of the province.

The assassination comes 10 days after another targeted the Diwaniyah governor, Khalil Jalil Hamza, who was also an SIIC member, in a similar explosive device attack on his motorcade that killed him instantly.

Samawa, the capital of Muthanna province, lies 280 km south of Baghdad. Pat Dollard

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