Imad Sarsam

Imad Matti Sarsam (also transliterated: Emad) was a highly reputed Iraqi orthopaedic 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..

His qualifications included the FRCS (UK), D.Sc (Ortho.) and M.B.Ch.B.

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.

See also

• Violence against academics in post-invasion Iraq

External links

• http://www.angelfire.com/me4/bashar3/references.htm
• http://www.aliraqi.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=27317
• claimed witness testimony, on blog 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