Unknown armed men shot and killed a professor in the Babil University College of Medicine northeast of al-Hillah, which is about 100km south of Baghdad, on last Monday.
Eyewitnesses as saying that unknown armed men opened fire on Dr. ‘Ali Fallih al-Ghariri as he came out of his house in the Jablah - al-‘Aziziyah - al-Hillah junction area about 50km northeast of al-Hillah. Dr. al-Ghariri was on his way to the al-Hillah Surgical Hospital where he worked at the time of the shooting. The assassins fled in their car after killing the doctor.
The killing came amidst a wave of assassinations of Iraqi doctors, scientists, and academics. Such attacks are frequently carried out the Zionist secret service, the Mossad.
Hundreds of Iraqi intellectuals have been mysteriously shot and killed since the US invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2003. On 14 June 2005, the Palestine Information Center published a report stating that the Mossad had killed 530 Iraqi scientists and professors in the previous seven months.
The report stated that "Israeli" Mossad agents and commandos had been operating in occupied Iraq for more than a year, with the specific task of targeting Iraqi scientists and intellectuals. The Zionistslaunched the campaign after intensive efforts by American occupation authorities to get Iraqi scientists to defect to the US failed, the Al Basrah reported.
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