Posted on 12/13/2005 2:43:56 AM PST by HAL9000
A chief of list to legislative in Iraq killed in an attack
BAGHDAD - the sunnite Mezher Nagi Al-Doulaïmi, chief candidate to legislative of Thursday in Iraq, was killed Tuesday by shootings of unknown in the rebellious Al-Anbar province, in the west of Baghdad, announced a source of safety.
The victim was the chief of the free Party Iraqi progressist, a small formation which introduced three candidates, of which Doulaïmi, with the poll in this province.
"Of unknown opened fire on its car with Ramadi (Al-Anbar chief town), killing it and wounding a person who accompanied it", according to this source.
Leading Sunni candidate killed in Iraq
A leading Sunni Arab candidate for the Iraqi elections, Mizher al-Dulaimi, was killed Tuesday in the volatile western city of Ramadi, an interior ministry source said.
Dulaimi headed a list of the independent Iraqi Free Progressive Party.
The killing was the latest in a string of political murders that have marred the campaign for legislative elections to be held on Thursday.
Prominent Sunni politician shot dead in Iraq
RAMADI, Iraq, Dec 13 (Reuters) - A leading Sunni Muslim Arab politician was shot dead in Iraq on Tuesday just two days before the nation votes for a new parliament.
Mizhar al-Dulaimi, head of the Free Progressive Iraqi Party, was killed while campaigning in the centre of Ramadi, capital of the restive Anbar province in western Iraq, police said. Three of his bodyguards were wounded.
A well-known Sunni Arab, Dulaimi had appeared on television the previous night, urging Iraqis to vote.
Many Sunni Arabs are standing in Thursday's poll after largely boycotting the Jan. 30 election for an interim assembly.
Al Qaeda and other Islamist militant groups on Monday described the election as ungodly and said they would continue their jihad until they had turned Iraq into an Islamic state.
But their statement was more muted in tone that those issued by insurgent groups in January and did not directly threaten voters or candidates.
Dulaimi headed a list of the independent Iraqi Free Progressive Party.
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