Iraqis in Samarra with a message for the world (photo via Iraqi Spring MC).
We'll come back to the protests, let's move to violence for a moment, Yang Yi (Xinhua) reports, "A female Iraqi candidate for the upcoming provincial elections and her husband have been killed in the northern part of the country, police said Friday. Unidentified gunmen killed Kamisa Ahmed Al-Bachari and her husband late Thursday evening when they were returning from a wedding party in Al Arish village, south of Mosul, about 400 km north of Iraq's capital Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua." National Iraq News Agency adds that an armed attack on a Tal Afar checkpoint resulted in the deaths of 2 police officers. Alsumaria notes three police officers were injured in a Baghdad mortar attack, 1 police officer shot dead on the streets of Mosul (gun had a silencer on it), and, dropping back to last night, an attack on a mosque to the south of Falluja left Iman Jbeil Majid al-Issawi dead. Through yesterday, Iraq Body Count counts 158 violent deaths in Iraq so far this month.
As they have for months now, protests continue in Iraq. Above is a screen snap of Mosul this morning from a video posted by Iraqi Spring MC.
Baghdad? Again efforts were made to stop the citizens from exercising their rights to protest -- and, as Ayad Allawi (leader of Iraqiya) has previously pointed out -- to stop them from exercising their rights to worship. Alsumaria notes efforts to prevent worshippers from reaching mosques. Sameer N. Yacoub (AP) adds that federal police "used batons and water hoses" in an attempt to prevent Sunnis "from reaching a prominent mosque in northern Baghdad."
Despite these efforts, National Iraqi News Agency reports Speaker of Parliament Osama al-Nujaifi and Iraqiya MPs Salman Jumaili and Dhafi al-Aani took part in worship at Abu Hanifa Mosque in Adhamiya.
Below is an Iraqi Spring MC photo of others who made it to the mosque in Adhmiya.
National Iraqi News Agency reports the Ramadi protesters today arrested a man who was attempting to burn protesters cars and they "handed him over to Aljazeerah police station in Ramadi."
Protests also took place in Jalawlaa, Baquba, Falluja, Samarra, Baiji and Kirkuk.
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