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BAGHDAD, December 07 (Online): Gunmen shot dead on Saturday a former secret police general who was in charge of western Baghdad under ousted Saddam Hussein, a witness told AFP. Gen Khalaf Alussi died at his home under a hail of bullets fired by four men, said Wissam Idan, a 24-year-old building worker at the house in the capital’s al-Yarmuk area. The general, who died on the spot, headed the feared secret police in the al-Kharkh district on the west bank of the Tigris river. Meanwhile, a member of the paramilitary Iraqi civil defence corps (ICDC) was wounded in a rocket...

Top Saddam general shot dead From correspondents in Baghdad 06Dec03 GUNMEN shot dead today a former secret police general who had been in charge of western Baghdad under ousted strongman Saddam Hussein, a witness told said. General Khalaf Alussi died at his home under a hail of bullets fired by four men, said Wissam Idan, a 24-year-old building worker at the house in the capital's al-Yarmuk area. The general, who died on the spot, headed the feared secret police in the al-Kharkh district on the west bank of the Tigris river. At the hospital where the body was taken, his...