On Saturday night, a Sunni candidate was driving north of Tikrit when gunmen opened fire with pistols equipped with silencers, killing him, officials said.
In an attack in the Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad, insurgents in at least two cars assaulted a checkpoint at dawn with pistols fitted with silencers, killing five policemen, then planted their flag before fleeing.
On Sunday, gunmen riding in a single car and brandishing pistols with silencers killed a founder of the Awakening movement in Shaab, Ismael Abbas, an Interior Ministry official said.
Gunmen using silencers killed 10 Iraqi soldiers at a military outpost in Mushada, northwest of Baghdad, and then two policemen and two others in Falluja.
Over the course of two hours, gunmen using silencers killed a police colonel, an army colonel, two police commissioners, a colonel from the traffic police and a municipal employee, all in a tight area of central and eastern Baghdad.
In two separate shootings in Diyala Province, gunmen using silencers killed a man and seriously wounded two others at a car repair shop southwest of Baquba, and a woman was shot to death north of the city, according to police sources.
At the check point, in western Baghdad, gunmen attacked with silencer weapons, killing one officer and wounding another.
Recent reports from across Iraq suggest that attackers are increasingly using silencers to kill police and security officers, blowing up individual cars with magnetic bombs, and attacking vulnerable and cash-rich merchants — especially gold dealers.
In 2005, in a still-unsolved murder, someone fired eight shots from a pistol with a silencer and killed investigative reporter Elmar Huseynov, who had written articles on alleged corruption among Azeri officials and Aliyev's wealthy family members.
A8 Politician Killed in Moscow A sniper equipped with a silencer shot and killed one of Moscow's regional governors and tried to shoot the province's vice governor.
Anti-Assad activists said gunmen with silencer-equipped weapons killed the official, Ali Balan, Thursday at a restaurant in the upscale Mezzeh neighborhood of Damascus, which is heavily guarded.
