(New York Times) Richard A. Oppel Jr. - On Sunday Iraqi insurgents gunned down Muhammad Abd al-Hussein, a member of a secular political party that has been strongly critical of Syria, in front of his house in Baghdad. "We have lost today a hero killed by terrorists," said Mithal al-Alusi, the head Hussein's Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation. "After he took part in the demonstration in front of the Syrian Embassy in Baghdad, he received death threats, and now he is killed." In Najaf, a former Baathist arrested in connection with bombings last week that killed at least 50 people told police he trained in Syria, police chief Ghalib Al-Jazaeiri said Sunday. "I did not accuse the Syrian intelligence, but I confirm that we have arrested a Baathist from Basra shortly after the explosion, and he was holding a handkerchief covered with blood," Jazaeiri said. "He confessed during the interrogation that he was under training in a so-called mujahedeen camp in Syria for six months and confessed also to his ties with the Syrian intelligence."
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