Second provincial council candidate assassinated in two days

"Iraqi TV station, al-Sharqyia, reported today on the assassination of Hassan Zeidan al-Loheibi at his home, 60km south of Mosul. Al-Loheibi wes campaigning for a seat in the Council of Mosul in the coming provincial elections.

According to Sharqyia the suicide bomber walked into al-Loheibi’s house and blew himself up as he approached him. Hassan Al-Loheibi was heading the ‘National Front for a Free and United Iraq’, part of the ‘Iraqi Front for National Dialogue’, one of Iraq’s larger Sunni political parties."
Salam Pax