Baghdad, Jumada Al-Awwal 19, 1432, April 23, 2011, SPA -- A young employee of the Iraqi intelligence service, was killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen with weapons fitted with silencers in western Baghdad this morning. A security source, who asked not to be named, said the unidentified gunmen driving a civilian car opened fire from guns with silencers, at one of employees of the intelligence service who were attending a meeting in the courtyard of Baghdad's western Al-Mansour district this morning, which led to his death on the spot and the attackers fled. Immediately, police scrambled to shut down the area of the shooting scene and began their search for insurgents. "However, the dead body was taken to the forensic medicine department (for postmortem)." The source gave no further details about the victim's name or rank, or the party that stands behind the incident. --SPA 13:21 LOCAL TIME 10:21 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/886127