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Iraqi MPs postpone electing leaders as violence continues- Iraqi MPs have again delayed a session needed to elect a new leadership in the face of a jihadist-led Sunni rebellion in the north and west. Iraqs politicians have been urged to unite but paralysis has continued. The session, scheduled for Tuesday, has been postponed for a month. Meanwhile a senior general, Maj Gen Najm Abdullah al-Sudani, was martyred on the field of battle in fighting to the west of Baghdad, said a statement from Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. Maj Gen Sudani was killed in fighting in the Ibrahim bin Ali area west of Baghdad where government troops have been facing Sunni militants who seized the towns of Falluja and Ramadi in January. Also on Monday: Security and medical sources said that six people were killed and 14 others injured when a suicide bomber detonated a car at a checkpoint leading to the Kadhamiyah district of central Baghdad. The leader of a Shia militant group that kidnapped five Britons in Iraq in 2007 - and killed four of them - apologised in an interview with the BBC. Police in Anbar province said that several Sunni armed groups have removed barriers, surveillance towers, and barbed wire on the border between Iraq and Syria bbc/news/world-middle-east-28193529
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:41:44 +0000

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