Car Bomb Kills Shiite Legislator in Iraq

[maddezmom]

The Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq A suicide car bomb killed a Shiite legislator and three others near Baghdad on Tuesday, an attack likely to further fuel ethnic tensions on the one-year anniversary of the transfer of sovereignty to Iraqi authorities.

Separately, more than 1,000 U.S. troops and Iraqi forces launched Operation Sword in a bid to crush insurgents and foreign fighters in western Iraq, the third major offensive in the area in recent weeks.

The military campaigns, however, have not been able to capsize a resilient insurgency that has killed more than 1,350 people _ mostly civilians and Iraqi security forces _ since Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari announced his Shiite-dominated government on April 28.

National Assembly legislator Dhari Ali al-Fayadh and his son were killed in the suicide attack while traveling to parliament from their farm in Rashidiya, 20 miles northeast of Baghdad, said parliamentarian Hummam Hammoudi, who heads a committee charged with drafting a new constitution.

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Suicide bomber kills dean of Iraq parliament
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq's oldest member of parliament, Dhari al-Fayadh, died with his son and three bodyguards in a suicide bombing north of Baghdad, while more bombs killed two and wounded 20 elsewhere.

Fayadh, 87, and his son were killed whan "a vehicle packed with explosives and driven by a suicide bomber was detonated alongside his two-car convoy in Al-Rashidyah," an interior ministry source said.

Chief of the Albuamer, a powerful and predominantly Shiite tribe, Fayadh had presided over the first sessions of Iraq's new parliament before a speaker was elected.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050628/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_050628084356

[Oversea Visitor]

1. yes chimp talk with iraq PM

now all mess up. Now they target all members of parliments has read many die today. chimp make speech make more iraq people get off fence now get worse dumb fuck chimp a walking disaster.

[Roland99]

2. Pfffft....nothing as bad as what goes on in Houston

:sarcasm:

[justinsb]

3. Suicide car bomb kills Iraqi MP

Suicide car bomb kills Iraqi MP

A senior member of the Iraqi parliament has been killed by a suicide bomber.

Dhari al-Fayadh, 87 - a Shia who was Iraq's oldest MP - died with his son and three bodyguards when the car bomb hit their convoy in northern Baghdad.

He is the second MP to die in renewed violence following the installation of an elected government in April.

The killing comes a year after the US handover of power to Iraqis, an anniversary President George W Bush is due to mark with a speech on US TV.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4629133.stm

[Barrett808]

4. One by one., they'll be picked off

If they leave the Republic of the Green Zone.

[Sparkman]

5. Our 1865 Civil War produced fewer deaths of congressmen! Iraq is lawless?

[NNN0LHI]

6. Iraq lawmaker killed ahead of Bush speech

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050628/ts_nm/iraq_wrapup_dc_6;_ylt=A86.I0q1acFCDW8ACwdX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents assassinated a prominent member of the Iraqi parliament on Tuesday ahead of a speech by President Bush to rally Americans behind an increasingly unpopular war.

Bush was expected to mark a year since Washington formally handed over sovereignty to Iraqis by calling on Americans to stand firm in a speech delivered among troops at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, at a time when violence has sharply worsened.

U.S. Marines continued the offensive against Sunni Arab insurgents by dispatching 1,000 U.S. troops and 100 Iraqis on a major operation against rebels in the western Euphrates valley.

Lawmaker Dhari Ali al-Fayadh was killed along with his son and three bodyguards when a suicide car bomb struck his convoy in Baghdad's northern outskirts, the second Iraqi lawmaker assassinated since the government took power in April.

[saigon68]

7. Another " QUISLING " bites the dust

The Iraqi Resistance, sure knows how to deal with collaborators

[Gregorian]

8. OMISSION ACCOMPLISHED

He lied; They died.

[Supersedeas]

10. it will not be spoken of...verboden

[Lecky]

9. That's horrible :(

I do feel bad for those people who are trying to set up their government...

[Roland99]

11. And he was the oldest member and the speaker when parliament was 1st held

And, and I've read (at Bloomberg) that he was a Sunni.