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Kurdish lawmaker fatally harmed in Iraqi ambush
Kurdish member of parliament Faris Nasir Hussein and his brother and driver were killed in an ambush 50 miles north of Baghdad. A second Kurdish lawmaker Haidar Shanon was wounded near Dujail as lawmakers prepared for Sunday's session approving constitution amendments for UN printing. Police found 20 bodies in the Tigris and Basra militiamen blocked streets demanding Sheikh Ahmed Fartasi’s release.
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Iraq
Tigris
Faris Nasir Hussein
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Party
Baghdad
Haidar Shanoun
Dujail
PUK
United Nations
U.N
Hussain al-Shahristani
Balad
U.S
al Asad
56Th Brigade
Basra
Ahmed Fartasi
Muqtada al-Sadr
Fartosi
al-Sadr
Najaf
Mudhafar al-Shawki
Mahdi Army
Karbala
National Assembly