BAGHDAD — Insurgents dragged five Shiite Muslim schoolteachers and their driver into a classroom, lined them against a wall and gunned them down today; slayings in Iraq’s notorious Triangle of Death that reflect the enflamed sectarian divisions ahead of a crucial constitutional referendum…
Farther south, gunmen on Monday assassinated a senior Shiite official from the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq in the town of Qurna, near Basra, said Haytham al-Hussein, an aide to the leader of the party, one of the main factions in the government…
In other violence Monday, a suicide car bomber in Baghdad attacked a police checkpoint…hitting a private bus carrying 24 ministry employees to work, said police Capt. Nabil Abdel Qadir. The blast killed at least seven policemen and three people on the bus and wounded 36 people, Qadir said.
