Another Allawi bloc member killed Saturday

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: A member of former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s al-Iraqiya bloc was killed along with two civilians in an improvised explosive device blast inside his clinic in central al-Qaim district, western al-Anbar province, a police source said on Saturday. “Dr. Ihab Saleh, the director of al-Obaidi Hospital in al-Qaim district, (480 km) western Anbar, and a candidate of al-Iraqiya bloc, was killed on Saturday along with two civilians in a blast from an IED that was planted inside his clinic,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The source did not give further details, Qaem lies 480 km west of Baghdad. Earlier, a security source in Ninewa province told IraqiNews.com on Saturday that unidentified gunmen clad in security forces uniform shot dead Faris Jassim al-Juburi, a candidate of al-Iraqiya, inside his house in al-Mawali village, (30 km) west of Mosul city. On May 24, another al-Iraqiya candidate, Bashar al-Ekeidi, was killed along with his chauffeur, when unidentified gunmen opened fire on them in front of his house in al-Amil neighborhood, western Mosul. Also, on February 7, 2010, al-Iraqiya bloc female candidate Soha Abdullah Jarallah, was shot down in an attack by gunmen using guns with silencers in the area of Ras al-Jada, western Mosul. Allawi’s Iraqiya bloc had won Iraq’s March 7 legislative elections with 91 seats, only two seats ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Dawlat al-Qanoon (State of Law) which won 89 seats. The predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar lies 110 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (S) 2