Gunmen kidnapped the Anbar province's deputy governor Wednesday in the latest assault on officials connected to Iraq's interim government, the Interior Ministry said. Gunmen opened fire on Bassil Ahmed's car and seized him after the vehicle stopped, Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Adnan Abdel Rahman said. Ahmed's son was injured during the shooting in Anbar, a stronghold of Sunni insurgents. In Baghdad, gunmen killed the assistant director of the Interior Ministry's criminal investigation department early Wednesday after opening fire on his car as he headed to work, Rahman said. Col. Ismail al-Ayal was ambushed near his home in the city's western Ghazaliya district, Rahman said. Insurgents have targeted police and civic officials because they are seen as collaborators with American forces.
