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Red Crescent director, wife found dead in northern Iraq 2 hours, 40 minutes ago Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo!
ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) - The director of the Iraqi Red Crescent in the Kurdish city of Arbil and his wife have been murdered, a Red Crescent official revealed.
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The bodies of Barzan Omar Ahmad and his wife Sazane Ismail Abdullah, who also works at the Red Crescent, were discovered late Friday on a street in the Hay al-Intisar district of the main northern city of Mosul.
Hawar Fares said the murders were a "terrorist operation" carried out by gunmen, as bullets were found in the car.
Earlier Saturday, two people were wounded when a convoy carrying members of a security firm working with the US-led coalition was attacked in Mosul, an army spokesman said.
The city has been a hotbed of anti-coalition violence with near-daily attacks on US troops and their Iraqi allies.
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