Iraq Watch: July 19, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Mijbil Issa, a Sunni member of the constitution committee designed to help Iraq draft a new constitution, was shot and killed outside a restaurant in the Karradah district of Baghdad. An advisor to the committee, Dhamin Hussein, along with a bodyguard were also killed in the attack.

Elsewhere, at least 13 people were killed when gunmen ambushed their minibus. The bus was carrying Iraqi workers on their way to the U.S. al-Faris airbase in Baqouba, about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.

A roadside bomb killed a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) along with an Iraqi policeman near the northern city of Kirkuk.