A brother of one of Iraq's two vice presidents was shot and killed Sunday on his way to work in Baghdad, officials said. A top Trade Ministry official was wounded and two of his bodyguards were killed in a separate attack, police said. Ghalib Abdul-Mahdi, brother of Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi, was gunned down along with his driver while traveling to work at the office of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, two aides to the vice president said. The aides spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to talk on the record to the media. Ghalib Abdul-Mahdi served as an adviser to the prime minister. One of Iraq's vice presidents is a Shiite and the other is a Sunni. Adil Abdul-Mahdi is a Shiite. An Internet statement posted on an extreme Islamist Web site claimed that al Qaida in Iraq had killed Ghalib Abdul-Mahdi. The statement's authenticity could not be independently verified.More about:Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Iraqfunction initServerVars() { _headup.clientHost = 'http://newstopics.jpost.com'; _headup.termsFromServer = "Ibrahim al-Jaafari$$Adil Abdul-Mahdi$$Iraq's"; _headup.annotatedTerms = ['dbpedia:Ibrahim_al-Jaafari$$1', 'dbpedia:Adil_Abdul-Mahdi$$1', 'dbpedia:Iraq$$1'] _headup.widgetMode = 'snippet'; _headup.snippetButtonStyle = 'banner'; _headup.blackListedUrl = false; } <!-- Terms Count: 3 TTL: 60 Terms From Server: Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Iraq's DateTime: 6/2/2011 1:36:01 AM -->