Secretary-General of so-called “Iraq’s Honest Sons Coalition,” injured in assassination attempt

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Secretary-General of the so-called “Iraq’s Honest Sons Coalition,” Abbas al-Mohammadwi, has been injured in an assassination attempt in northern Baghdad’s A’athamiya District on Wednesday, according to the Coalition’s statement. “During my drive through A-athamiya District, trying to cross al-A’imma Bridge, heading to west Baghdad’s Kazimiya District, a guy, disguised behind a newspaper seller, opened fire on me and escaped in A’athamiya streets,” Mohammadawi said in his statement, distributed by his brother, who said his Brother Abbas was shot in one of his shouders and was driven to a hospital for treatment. Noteworthy is that Mohammadawi had escaped a previous assassinatoin attempt on 6/10/2011, after he left his house in Baghdad’s Kafa’at District, when a group, using a small 11-passenger bus, opened fire on his car, seriously wounding one of his bodyguards. SKH (PT)Number of Reads:101