A senior official at the Iraqi Ministry of Trade was killed Sunday along with his driver as he was en route to his office west of Baghdad. A source at the Trade Ministry told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, dpa, that Ali Moussa, director-general of the department of trade monitoring, was attacked by armed men in the al-Dawoudi area west of Baghdad. "The victim was on the phone with his secretary when armed men attacked the car, killing him and his driver," the source said. In al-Qaem near the Syrian border, a medical source said four Iraqi civilians were killed and seven others wounded, some of them seriously, when U.S. forces responded to an attack at a customs office near the border. Dr. Hamdi al-Allousi at al-Qaem hospital told dpa that several shells fell on the victims' houses in the clashes at dawn Sunday. According to witnesses four houses were damaged in the incident.
