High-level Republican Guard officer fatally shot in Mosul

Published May 27th, 2003 - 02:00 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

A top officer in the Republican Guard of the ousted regime of Saddam Hussein was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the northern city of Mosul last week, a Kurdish weekly said Monday. 

 

Jamawar reported that Colonel Abdul Karim Mohsen Juhaish was fatally shot on May 19. It said Juhaish was accused by Kurds in northern Iraq of involvement in the killing of over 60 Kurdish residents of Surie village in Dahuk province in 1991. (Albawaba.com) 

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