Imad Matti Sarsam was a highly reputed Iraqi orthopaedic

Orthopedic surgery

Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system...

 surgeon, teaching at the Department of Orthopedics in Baghdad University and as assistant professor at the Baghdad Medical College, who was assassinated on August 31, 2004, just three months after his participation in an international conference of shoulder and elbow surgeons in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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His qualifications included the FRCS

Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons

Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons is a professional qualification to practise as a surgeon in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland...

 (UK

United Kingdom

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), D.Sc

Doctor of Science

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 (Ortho.) and M.B.Ch.B

Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery

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Circumstances of death

As reported on November 1, 2004 on al-iraqi.org, Imad Sarsam was killed without any obvious motive:

He just left his surgery with his Assistant when a few men approached him, he offered to give them his bag (which had money in it) and his car but they said they did not want it. They asked him to take a walk with them, took a few steps away from his car and assistant and then they shot shot him and fled. We don't know what happened to his Assistant or what the motive behind the murder is.

External links

• http://www.angelfire.com/me4/bashar3/references.htm
• http://www.aliraqi.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=27317
• claimed witness testimony, on blog
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   aliraqi.org
• The Effect of Tensile Forces on Shoulder Capsule Integrity, poster presentation at the 2004 9th International Congress on Surgery of the Shoulder Meeting, organised by the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, May 2-May 3, 2004
• http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2967809.stm