Iraqi Provincial Elections Bring Wave of Violence, Assassination
Sunni candidates in the upcoming Iraqi elections are being targeted in a recent spate of assassinations, reports Ali Abel Sadah.
Death is haunting Sunni Iraqi candidates in their regions, and the killers are unknown in most cases.
Ever since the start of the electoral campaigns of the political blocs competing for seats in local councils, it has become clear that anything goes in the electoral race, including the assassination of candidates, according to Iraqi observers and politicians.
On April 14, 2013, about a week before the local elections, Sunni Iraqi politicians were assassinated in the cities of Diyala and Saladin.
In the city of Baqouba (in Diyala province, west of Baghdad) the candidate of the Iraqi Diyala list, Najem al-Harbi, was killed along with two of his brothers and his son in an ambush in the east of the city.
