Provincial elections are on Saturday and candidates are dropping. Today three were killed. One in Mosul, another in Baghdad and one in Diyala province.
It's almost expected here. Two others were killed recently as well.
In the United States this would be big news. Here it's a line in the violence report of the day. Better then other days, a huge improvement over the frightening times of more than a year ago but yet still more bloodshed.
In Diyala Abbas Farhan al Jubouri went to the village of Mohammed al Maleh to campaign. He is running with the National Movement of Reformation and Development also known as "The Solution."
But he never made it home. He, his cousin and his brother were taken and later their dead bodies were found just north of the village.
He was number six on his party's list. Now he is gone. He leaves behind twelve children.
The willingnes of Muslims to murder Muslims as well as non-muslims is amazing considering the faith these people claim to have. Islam will come to be known as the religion of mass murderers in the future. I assume that some part of the public in Iraq is horrified by all of these murders but we don't hear much about anyone protesting. Distressing and disgusting.
Posted by: Kal Palnicki | January 29, 2009 at 10:03 PM
This never even made the BBC website - so far as I can tell.
Certainly not the US news.
Posted by: R J Adams | January 29, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Has anyone looked at the blue ink mark for those who vote as a way to mark those people who don't vote - literally. Isn't that a form of repression? What if we did that to Americans? Think of the pressure on, say an African-American, if he had no mark that he voted this year? Not voting is a way that people state that they don't believe in the choices they've been given. How are these vote markers perceived in Iraq?
Posted by: Armen P | January 31, 2009 at 11:17 AM
This never even made the BBC website - so far as I can tell.
Certainly not the US news
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