Col. Musab al-Awadi, the ministry's deputy chief of tribal affairs, and his guards had just left the house in al-Baya neighborhood when the gunmen drove up and shot them, according to Sabah Kadhim, an Interior Ministry spokesman.(Note the spelling variation)
There have been a couple of car-bombings in Baghdad and Mosul today (civilian deaths and injuries of some US soldiers), and two female Iraqi airport employees were shot to death as they drove to work. The terrorists seem to be feeling quite perky today. Probably coinciding with the DNC.
The Sunnis seem to want a Civil War...they may get it.