Hang on to your hats, folks...this could go either way - it could get real ugly today if some cooler heads don't prevail. Remember, U.S. troop presence in Baghdad right now is minimal. Here's the entire but brief report from Breitbart on the assassination of the leader of Iraq's largest Sunni political bloc in the Iraq government:
Iraq parliament Sunni leader killed at mosque: Reuters+
CAIRO, June 12 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The head of the Iraqi parliament's biggest Sunni Muslim bloc was killed at a Baghdad mosque on Friday, Reuters news service reported, quoting officials.
Harith al-Ubaidi, head of the Accordance Front, and a member of the parliament's human rights committee, was leaving a mosque in west Baghdad after Friday prayers when he was killed, according to the report.
"He was at a mosque. An armed man shot him with a pistol, then threw a grenade at him inside the Al-Shawaf mosque," Saleem al-Jubouri, a spokesman for the Accordance Front, was quoted as saying.
The killing coincided with coalition negotiations by parties before parliamentary polls due in January, seen as a key test of whether Iraq's Sunnis, Shiites and ethnic Kurds can live at peace after years of bloodshed since the 2003 U.S. invasion.
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