Iraqi Ruling Party Names Officials Killed
Iraq’s ruling Arab Baath Socialist Party revealed the names Sunday of 11 senior party officials killed in March during a Shiite Muslim uprising in the south and a Kurdish rebellion in the north.
The 11 men include Taha Yassin Shahadha, the governor of Dhi Qar province in the south, and two other members of the Baath leadership in the province.
The other party officials were from the southern provinces of Basra, Najaf, Karbala and Misan, two were from the Kurdish province of Sulaymaniyah and one was a trade union activist killed about 60 miles south of Baghdad.
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