Gunmen Kill Iraqi Chief Of Anti-Hussein Committee  The head of
Iraq's effort to purge Saddam Hussein loyalists from the
government was assassinated Thursday night. Ali al-Lami had led
the Justice and Accountability Commission since 2004.  Iraq's
al-Sumaria TV network reports that "unknown gunmen driving a
Hyundai opened fire using muted weapons" and killed al-Lami in
eastern Baghdad around 9 p.m. Thursday. He was accompanied only
by his driver; al-Lami evidently had a long practice of not
using bodyguards.  At al-Lami's funeral Friday, mourners blamed
remnants of Hussein's Baath party for the killing, according to
reports. But there have been no claims of responsibility for the
attack as of yet.  Al-Lami was a divisive figure in Iraq, where
his committee sought to bar hundreds of political candidates
from seeking office in last year's parliamentary elections.
Because many of those candidates were Sunni, al-Lami came under
accusations that he was trying to tighten Shiites' hold on the
government.  And in 2008,