MOSUL, Jan 2: Assassins stabbed and shot a politics professor after luring him from his home, Iraqi police said on Friday, the latest murder of a prominent figure in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Police said the body of Abdul Jabbar Mustafa, dean of the political science department at Mosul University, was found in a residential area on Thursday after a group of men summoned him from his home, saying he was needed at the university.

A tribal leader, a top judge and a criminal lawyer - all of whom had working relationships with officials of the US-led occupying authority - have been assassinated in Mosul over the last two weeks, in what those officials describe as a campaign of intimidation.-Reuters