Fatal car bomb targets Iraqi election convoy

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

By The Associated Press

BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials say a car bomb targeting the convoy of a Sunni candidate for next week's election has killed two people and wounded four others in western Iraq.

Candidate Ashur Hamid al-Karbouli was not at the scene of Sunday's attack in the city of Khaldiyah in Iraq's Sunni-dominated western Anbar province. Sheik Efan Saadoun, chair of the provincial council's security committee, said the car bomb exploded 20 yards (meters) from the convoy of cars decorated with political banners and posters.

A campaign worker and a bystander were killed.


Read more: http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/02/28/13057751-ap.html

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Kurdish activist injured in Iraq election violence


An opposition activist in Iraqi Kurdistan was injured by supporters of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Saturday in the regional capital Arbil, an opposition spokesman said, ahead of March 7 polls.

"Fifteen armed men travelling in two vehicles entered our area in the centre of the city at around 1:00 pm (1000 GMT)," said Jafaar Khayat, spokesman for the Goran (Change) party.

"They removed took all the posters of our candidates and replaced them with posters of President Talabani and Kosrat Rasul," who is a senior official in Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

Khayat added that one of the party's guards was beaten with the butt of a rifle, and said that the people behind the attack left before police arrived at the scene.

more: http://www.alarabonline.org/english/display.asp?fname=2010%5C02%5C02-28%5Czalsoz%5C907.htm&dismode=x&ts=28/02/2010%2012:08:45%20%D1%83

[Rhiannon12866]

1. K&R. More encouraging news from Iraq...

;(

[maddezmom]

2. want to feel really sick read this: Iraqi politician's star rising again

Former U.S. ally Ahmad Chalabi has defined the agenda for the elections and is eyeing parliament.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-iraq-chalabi28-2010feb28,0,4916427.story

[Rhiannon12866]

5. I read that elsewhere on DU and couldn't believe he's still walking free.

Not only did he mislead and swindle the US government, but he's still wanted on 22 cases of bank fraud in Jordan. The last I knew, he was being led away by Interpol. Somebody dropped the ball... He belongs behind bars, not making laws. :grr:

[customerserviceguy]

3. Declare victory, go home, and let them fight it out

that's what we did with Vietnam. If we'd only had the brains to do that in 1967 rather than 1973.

[Robb]

4. Worked so well in 1989. nt