A politician from Ayad Allawi's Iraqi List was among six people killed when four bombs exploded near the politician's house in western Iraq early Sunday, dpa quoted Iraqi police as saying. The attack came less than two days after Iraq's electoral commission declared Allawi's coalition the narrow winner in Iraq's March 7 parliamentary elections. Police told the German Press Agency dpa that Ghanem al-Karbuli, a politician from the al-Hal movement, part of former prime minister Allawi's coalition, died when four bombs exploded near his house in al-Qaim, near the Iraqi-Syrian border. Al-Karbuli's cousin and four others were also killed and four others were injured in the blast, police said. Al-Karbuli's party, the al-Hal movement, on its website says it is dedicated to "disseminating and enhancing the culture of tolerance and brotherhood, and rejecting the culture of violence and weapons." "People have to be convinced that the logic of dialogue, not weapons, is the only way out of the Iraqi crisis," the party says in a document outlining its core platform. Lethal violence also continued in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday. Police told dpa that two civilians were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in the troubled city. The apparent target of that attack was a police patrol, police said. Insurgents in Mosul and its environs continue to launch near-daily deadly attacks, despite repeated security pushes that police say have netted hundreds of suspected militants. -- SPA
