BAGDHAD (Dispatches) – Iraqi sources say the deputy commander of the anti-terror Karbala Operation has been killed in an ambush in Iraq.
Iraqi media outlets reported that Haider Hamoud al-Husseinawy was assassinated on Monday while he was heading from his workplace in the town of al-Nukhib in Anbar Province to his home in Dhi Qar Province.
Baghdad Today cited a security source as saying that he was killed by “unknown” gunmen.
Meanwhile, Shafaq News said al-Husseinawy “died in mysterious circumstances.” No further details were immediately available.
The assassination was the second of its kind in the past few days.
On Thursday, Abdul-Zahra Nassir al-Maleki, a member of the Iraqi intelligence apparatus, was killed by unknown gunmen.
The assailants, who were riding a motorcycle, opened fire on al-Maleki’s car and fled to an unknown destination.
An Iraqi political alliance on Saturday warned of U.S. plots to assassinate political and military figures in the country and pin the blame on resistance groups, after reports said the drones that recently targeted the Iraqi premier’s house took off from the American embassy in Baghdad.