Senior Defense Ministry officer killed by silence gun
A senior officer working at the Iraqi Ministry of Defense was killed by unidentified gunners, a security source said.
The source, who did not wish his name be revealed for security reasons, said the officer, with the rank of major, was the latest victim of silencer guns in Baghdad.
Unidentified groups with silencer guns have been targeting senior government, army and security officials in Baghdad and other major Iraqi cities for more than a year.
Silencer guns have turned into the country’s most lethal weapon in the hands of groups like al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Iraqi analysts say the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda has scaled down its bomb attacks, resorting to silencer-gun attacks which mainly target senior police, army and government officials.
The group, the analysts, say finds the new tactic more destructive to a government which still does not have sufficient trained officers to administer its armed forces.
There are no exact figures on the number of officers silenced so far, but privately officials say hundreds of senior army and security officers have been killed in the past few months.
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