Kidnapped brother of Iraqi Sunni leader killed
Gunmen killed the brother of a top Iraqi Sunni politician, officials said on Monday, the second killing in less than a week of a relative of a Sunni leader as deadlock over a unity government showed no sign of ending. One day after Monday’s parliamentary session was delayed to give bickering politicians more time to form a government aimed at averting civil war, the body of Saleh al-Mutlak’s brother was identified in a Baghdad morgue. Saleh al-Mutlak, a wealthy businessman with links to former Baathists close to the insurgency, heads an Arab nationalist list which has 11 seats in parliament. Full Story