"In June, Knight Ridder correspondent Yasser Salihee was shot dead

bya sniper at a US checkpoint just days before a major story he hadresearched with Tom Lasseter was published. The story documentedaccounts of killings and torture by the interior ministry policecommando unit known as the Wolf Brigade, which was recruited fromformer members of HusseinÂ’s Iraqi Republican Guard."

"In July, the British Observerpublished allegations that the interior ministry was carrying outextra-judicial killings and widespread torture in the prisons under itscontrol."

"On August 2, a witness identified one of the men whoabducted and murdered American journalist Steven Vincent as an interiorministry employee. Vincent had written several exposures ofextra-judicial killings by Shiite militias linked to SCIRI."

"Thereare widespread accusations that the interior ministry and SCIRI, withthe complicity of US advisors, are behind a wave of terror beingunleashed against people believed to be supportive of the armedanti-occupation resistance or critical of the Baghdad government."
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"Theinterior ministry of the pro-US government in Iraq is being directlyaccused of carrying out the murder of Sadoun Antar Nudsaif al-Janabi, akeydefensee lawyer in the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven others thatbegan on October 19.

Janabi was seized from his office latein the evening on October 20 by as many as 10 men. Witnesses claim theywere wearing police uniforms. Several hours later, JanabiÂ’s body wasfound on the street near BaghdadÂ’s Fardous Mosque. He had been killedexecution-style with two gunshots to the head." "Link