Female Iraq election candidate shot dead in Mosul: police

A woman planning to stand in Iraq's March 7 general election was gunned down Sunday in the restive northern city of Mosul, police said, just days before campaigning is officially due to start. Suha Abdul Jarallah, a candidate on the list of pro-Western former prime minister Iyad Allawi, was shot dead as she left a house in the Ras al-Jadda neighbourhood in central Mosul, 350 kilometres (218 miles) north of Baghdad. [Saddam Hussein's govt: Clearly, the better deal.]

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