Sunni politicians killed in Iraq

Scores were killed or injured in a new wave of violence in Iraq that coincided with the trial of the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his senior aides.

Most of the attacks were concentrated in Baghdad and the surrounding areas. The two members of the Iraqi Islamic party Eyad al-Izzi and Ali Hussein and their guard were killed in an armed attack against their car near Abu Ghreib to the west of Baghdad. Al-Izzi was member in the political bureau of the party a candidate for the parliamentary elections to be held in the mid of December.

Iraqi police sources said that two Indians having British nationality were killed and other three of the British nationality injured in Eiwereij area south Baghdad in an attack launched by gunmen on the car they were riding as they were heading to visit religious tombs in al-Najaf and Karbala. Officials at the British consulate in Baghdad said that they are investigating such news.

Meantime, the American, British, and Canadian foreign departments confirmed that four of their citizens disappeared and are believed to be kidnapped in Iraq. The identity of the four men was not revealed. They are two Canadians, one British and One American.

In al-Jameaa ( university) quarters west Baghdad, gunmen attacked a local TV team and this resulted in killing two of the staff working in al-Iraqeyah TV channel. The attackers fled.