{"id":1156,"date":"2004-07-14T16:11:11","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T23:11:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-07-14T16:11:11","modified_gmt":"2004-07-14T23:11:11","slug":"two-assassinations-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/14\/two-assassinations-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Two assassinations in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edit: <S>Mashaan al-Juburi<\/S>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/latest.cfm?id=3203732\" target=\"_blank\">Youssef Kashmola<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuna.net.kw\/English\/Story.asp?DSNO=649206\" target=\"_blank\">Usama Kashmula<\/a> (depending on which account you rely &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A50410-2004Jun17.html\" target=\"_blank\">picture here<\/a>)governor of Mosul, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2004\/0714\/governor.html\" target=\"_blank\">was assassinated today<\/a> as he drove toward Baghdad in a convoy.<\/p>\n<p>Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/mld\/sunherald\/news\/world\/9152338.htm\" target=\"_blank\">assassinated today<\/a> was Sabir Karim, an auditor for the Industry Ministry, as he left his office in Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b>  AP is naming the assassinated governor of Mosul as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelouisvillechannel.com\/news\/3528541\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">Youssef Kashmola.<\/a>  However,  googling the name Youssef Kashmola or Youssef Kashmala produces no results.  I can document al-Juburi as being the governor of Mosul up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dod.gov\/transcripts\/2004\/tr20040617-depsecdef0902.html\" target=\"_blank\">June 17, 2004,<\/a> so I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s going on at this time.  I&#8217;ll update this post if I find the name verified or an explanation for this confusion.<\/p>\n<p>The consensus seems to be some version of the Kashmola name.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A50410-2004Jun17.html\" target=\"_blank\">This picture <\/a>identifies him as governor of Mosul province, not the city.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edit: Mashaan al-Juburi, Youssef Kashmola or Usama Kashmula (depending on which account you rely &#8211; picture here)governor of Mosul, was assassinated today as he drove toward Baghdad in a convoy. Also assassinated today was Sabir Karim, an auditor for the Industry Ministry, as he left his office in Baghdad. UPDATE: AP is naming the assassinated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}