aqualou
10 Dec 2004, 03:06 PM
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Iraqi election workers killed in drive-by (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/10/iraq.main/index.html)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An Iraqi election group announced Friday that three of its workers had died in a drive-by shooting earlier this week.
Sayid Essa Sayid Jaafar, a spokesman for the Hezbollah Movement in Iraq, said masked gunmen in a black BMW and a Daewoo opened fire Wednesday night on the members at a market area in the Al-Shula neighborhood of Baghdad.
Sattar Jabbar Al-Mishari, head of Hezbollah's operations in Baghdad, and two office workers died. Al-Mishari had received death threats because of his participation in the election process, Jaafar said.
This election group is not affiliated with the militant movement in Lebanon or another in Iraq that also bear the Hezbollah name.
Al-Mishari's organization is one of the groups that joined the United Iraq Alliance, the largely Shiite coalition that is fielding candidates for the January 30 election.
The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq announced a change Friday in the deadline for candidate-list registration.
Wednesday is the nationwide deadline. Previously, the cut-off had been today for 15 of 18 provinces, and Wednesday for the country's three most restive provinces -- Al-Anbar, Salah ad Din and Nineveh.
Falluja and Ramadi are in Al-Anbar, Samarra and Tikrit are in Salah ad Din and Mosul and Tal Afar are in Nineveh.
After Wednesday, the political parties and entities will not be allowed to make any further changes to their lists, names, and logos.
Iraqi election workers killed in drive-by (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/10/iraq.main/index.html)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An Iraqi election group announced Friday that three of its workers had died in a drive-by shooting earlier this week.
Sayid Essa Sayid Jaafar, a spokesman for the Hezbollah Movement in Iraq, said masked gunmen in a black BMW and a Daewoo opened fire Wednesday night on the members at a market area in the Al-Shula neighborhood of Baghdad.
Sattar Jabbar Al-Mishari, head of Hezbollah's operations in Baghdad, and two office workers died. Al-Mishari had received death threats because of his participation in the election process, Jaafar said.
This election group is not affiliated with the militant movement in Lebanon or another in Iraq that also bear the Hezbollah name.
Al-Mishari's organization is one of the groups that joined the United Iraq Alliance, the largely Shiite coalition that is fielding candidates for the January 30 election.
The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq announced a change Friday in the deadline for candidate-list registration.
Wednesday is the nationwide deadline. Previously, the cut-off had been today for 15 of 18 provinces, and Wednesday for the country's three most restive provinces -- Al-Anbar, Salah ad Din and Nineveh.
Falluja and Ramadi are in Al-Anbar, Samarra and Tikrit are in Salah ad Din and Mosul and Tal Afar are in Nineveh.
After Wednesday, the political parties and entities will not be allowed to make any further changes to their lists, names, and logos.