Iraq constitution committee-member killed

ONE of the Sunni Arabs appointed to a committee to draft Iraq’s constitution was assassinated yesterday in a drive-by shooting.

Mijbil Issa was gunned down, along with an adviser to the committee and a bodyguard, in the Karradah area of Baghdad, according to Mohammed Abed-Rabbou, another Sunni member of the drafting committee.

Mr Issa was among 15 Sunnis named last month to a committee charged with drafting a new constitution by August 15. The Sunni Arabs were added in an attempt to reach out to the community at the heart of the insurgency.