BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct 9, SPA -- The brother of Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president was killed early Monday in his Baghdad home, a government spokesman said. Gen. Amir al-Hashimi, brother of Vice President Tariqal-Hashimi and an adviser in the Defense Ministry, waskilled by unidentified gunmen wearing military uniforms inhis home in north Baghdad, Brig. Qassim al-Moussawi said. Further details were not immediately available, the Associated Press reported. Elsewhere, a suicide car bomber slammed into an Iraqipolice checkpoint in Tal Afar, 420 kilometers (260 miles)northwest of Baghdad, killing one policeman and wounding 12, police Brig. Najim Abdullah said.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/395011