Roadside bomb kills senior Shiite lawmaker
Two Shiite lawmakers say a senior member of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s movement has died of wounds suffered in a roadside bombing in Baghdad. Officials say Thursday’s explosion occurred as Saleh al-Auqaeili’s car passed about 200 yards (meters) away from an Iraqi army checkpoint in a heavily secured area near Baghdad’s main Shiite district of Sadr City. Full Story