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| Iraq |
| Iraq's Sunni candidates find enemies on all sides |
| 2005-12-05 |
| The car swerved in front of Sheik Ayad al-Izzi's sedan as he was crossing a bridge, on the way back to the capital after he had delivered a campaign speech in a western farming town rife with insurgents. Another car pulled alongside, and men with Kalashnikov rifles fired into the sheik's vehicle. His candidacy in the coming parliamentary elections ended abruptly on that concrete span. The attack on Nov. 28 instantly killed Sheik Izzi and two colleagues from the Iraqi Islamic Party, one of the country's most prominent Sunni Arab political groups. The assassins have not been found. "Day after day, our people are sacrificing themselves for their beliefs," Ayad al-Samarraie, a party leader, said after hundreds of mourners marched out of the party headquarters in western Baghdad last week, raising the sheik's wooden coffin. "There are many groups trying to wreck the political process." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |