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BAGHDAD — A senior Iraqi official whose job was to bar members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party from the current government was shot to death on a busy street late Thursday, the latest in a wave of assassinations that have sowed panic in the country.
Ali al-Lami, the executive director of the committee that acts as Iraq’s anti-Baath Party watchdog, was driving near Sadr City in Baghdad when a sedan blocked his car and a gunman using a silencer shot him. Al-Lami’s allies suspected the Baath Party was responsible.
