Communist Party official assassins nabbed

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: The killers of a Communist Party’s women league official in Kirkuk city were arrested on Sunday, a local media source said. “In cooperation with al-Urouba police, a force from Kirkuk’s Asayesh forces arrested the three killers of Kalawish Hussein Ali, an official in the women’s league of the Communist Party in the city,” the source told IraqiNews.com. “Those arrested confessed to stealing gold jewelry and two mobile phones,” the source added. The official was found slain in her house in al-Qadissiya neighborhood, southern Kirkuk. Kirkuk, 250 km (156 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, sits on the ruins of a 5,000-year-old settlement. Because of the strategic geographical location of the city, Kirkuk was the battle ground for three empires, Assyria, Babylonia and Media which controlled the city at various times. SS (P) 1