At the time of the transfer of sovereignty, I said here that that transfer would change nothing: the mujahedin, the warriors of jihad, would still labor to transform Iraq into an Islamic state. From the Sydney Morning Herald, with thanks to Nicolei:
Gunmen assassinated a senior Iraqi Interior Ministry official and two of his bodyguards in Baghdad yesterday, a ministry source said.
Mussab al-Awadi was reported to have been killed along with two of his bodyguards as he left his house in the capital.
Earlier three people, including a child, were killed and seven others wounded in a suicide bombing outside the main US military base in the northern city of Mosul, the US military said….
Also yesterday, militants calling themselves the Mujahideen Corps kidnapped two Jordanian drivers and threatened to execute them in 72 hours unless their Jordanian company stopped doing business with the US military, Associated Press reported. It follows an announcement by a group holding seven other foreigners that it had extended the deadline for talks and repeated a demand for their Kuwaiti employer to leave.
The hostages – three Indians, three Kenyans and an Egyptian, all truck drivers for a Kuwaiti firm – were seized last week by a little-known group calling itself the Black Banners brigade of the Islamic Secret Army. The brigade said it had decided to extend the deadline in response to an appeal from Sheik Hisham al-Dulami, the head of what he calls the Detainees Association.
The firm, the Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company, said on Sunday it had received assurances the captives would be freed.
An Iraqi group, the Islamic Army, said in a video aired on Al-Jazeera television that it had kidnapped two Pakistanis working for US forces and an Iraqi contract driver. It said it had sentenced the Pakistanis to death.