Another Iraqi intelligence officer killed in Baghdad
The most recent killing is likely meant to undercut Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi's efforts to curb militias outside the control of the state.
BAGHDAD — For the second time this year, a senior officer of the Iraqi intelligence service has been killed by unidentified gunmen.
On June 7, Nibras Farman al-Fayli, assistant director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service’s surveillance directorate, was driving a four-wheel-drive vehicle when he was killed by gunmen who were some 10 meters (33 feet) away from him in the Baladiyat neighborhood, in the east of Baghdad.
Fayli is the second officer to be assassinated in the space of three months; in March, unidentified gunmen killed a colonel in Baghdad's western neighborhood of Mansour.
The March killing immediately followed Shiite political parties’ accusations that the intelligence service is run by a team dispatched from the United Arab Emirates to Iraq.
