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Assassins hit North Oil Company again

The NOC's deputy inspector general, who had reportedly been investigating oil smuggling, was injured in an attack that killed two others.
Oil trucks drive by a highway sign posted by the Integrity Commission's Kirkuk Office of Investigations. (PATRICK OSGOOD/Iraq Oil Report)

Assassins killed a legal advisor of the state-run North Oil Company (NOC) and seriously injured the deputy to the inspector general, the third time a high-level NOC official has been murdered in less than six months.

At about 7 a.m. on Monday, unknown gunmen in a car opened fire on four NOC employees near the house of Ali Ihssan, the deputy inspector general, according to Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir, the director for district and sub-district police branches in Kirkuk, and two senior NOC officials.

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