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| Subject: YaY! Iraq Sunni Arab politician killed Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:29 pm | |
| A senior Sunni politician has been killed in a suicide bomb attack in northern Iraq.
Hassan Zaidan al-Luhaibi, vice- president of the Sunni National Dialogue bloc, was killed at a campaign meeting south of the city of Mosul.
Mr Luhaibi was leading his party's campaign for provincial elections to be held at the end of this month.
The elections - the first for three years - are seen as a key test for the process of national reconciliation.
Sunni Arabs and some Shia groups boycotted the last provincial polls, leading to the election of what some Iraqis see as unrepresentative local councils.
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