Iraqi officials: Senior Sadrist official assassinated in Najaf
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Iraqi officials say gunmen have killed a senior aide to anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr near his home in the Shiite holy city of Najaf.
The officials say Riyadh al-Nouri was the director of al-Sadr's office in Najaf. He was shot dead as he was driving home from Friday prayers in the adjacent city of Kufa.
A policeman and an official in al-Sadr's Najaf office confirmed the killing but spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose the information.
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