The political vacuum in Iraq is taking its toll. The latest victim, Bashar Hamid Aqidi, gunned down in the troubled northern city of Mosul, is the first of the newly elected lawmakers to be killed.
Sunni tribal leaders linked to the Awakening Councils who fought Al Qaeda, clerics, and ordinary folk have died to feed the voracious vacuum while the political factions squabble.
Iraqi Prime Minister and prime squabbler Nouri Al Maliki continues to campaign for the top job, although the tactics he has used to deprive the Iraqiya bloc of the largest number of seats in the 325-member parliament have so far failed.
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