BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 18 - A high-ranking adviser in the Iraqi Defense Ministry was assassinated late Monday night by gunmen at his house in Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.
The official, Maj. Gen. Adnan Qaragholi, was killed just after 11 p.m. when 10 gunmen forced their way into his house in the Doura neighborhood in southern Baghdad and shot him to death, Interior Ministry officials said.
Insurgents try to assassinate the leaders of Iraq's fledgling military and the police almost daily, and many officers have been killed. It was not clear on Monday night how the assassins, who arrived in three cars, got into General Qaragholi's house, or whether there was a firefight. The gunmen escaped, the officials said.
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