Self-defense backfires for Iraqi politician
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Politics is a deadly business in Iraq
with public figures in constant fear of assassination or kidnap, but self-defense measures backfired on one member of parliament Tuesday.
Police reported a Sunni Arab lawmaker from northern Nineveh province had been wounded in an attack.
But his party leader, Adnan al-Dulaimi, told Reuters: "Hashim Yahya al-Taee was not the victim of an assassination attempt. He was shot in the leg as he was cleaning his pistol." -
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with public figures in constant fear of assassination or kidnap, but self-defense measures backfired on one member of parliament Tuesday.
Police reported a Sunni Arab lawmaker from northern Nineveh province had been wounded in an attack.
But his party leader, Adnan al-Dulaimi, told Reuters: "Hashim Yahya al-Taee was not the victim of an assassination attempt. He was shot in the leg as he was cleaning his pistol." -
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