Insur­gents in Al-latifhya city gunned down “Hus­sein Saf­fer Ali” who was the only wit­ness on Saddam’s mass graves in his way back from Bagh­dad to Najaf after he gave his tes­ti­mony to the inquiry which deal­ing with for­mer regime’s crimes against humanity.

Ali was the only sur­vivor and escaped death from one of Saddam’s mass graves near al-Najaf . his rel­a­tives say that he went to Bagh­dad to give his tes­ti­mony in front of the inquiry, on his way back to Al-najaf using pub­lic trans­porta­tion bus gun­men near Al-latifhya blocked the road, stopped the bus and killed Ali.

Peo­ple aware that a mole inside the inquiry tipped the insur­gents about Ali’s travel route because he told no one only his close relatives

Source Al-Hayat