Iraqi election workers killed in drive-by shooting

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/10/iraq.main/index.html

An Iraqi election group announced Friday that three of its workers had died in a drive-by shooting earlier this week.

Sayid Essa Sayid Jaafar, a spokesman for the Hezbollah Movement in Iraq, said masked gunmen in a black BMW and a Daewoo opened fire Wednesday night on the members at a market area in the Al-Shula neighborhood of Baghdad.

Sattar Jabbar Al-Mishari, head of Hezbollah's operations in Baghdad, and two office workers died. Al-Mishari had received death threats because of his participation in the election process, Jaafar said.

This election group is not affiliated with the militant movement in Lebanon or another in Iraq that also bear the Hezbollah name.

[Cocoa]

1. this shows the terrorists are desperate

dead-enders, they fear freedom, etc.

[Iceburg]

2. 30,000 polling stations and 130,000 poll workers

are required to conduct the elections.

I wonder how bu$hco intends to protect the poll workers (let alone the voters) with 137,000 troops? Clearly, simultaneous elections at all polls are not possible.

[Iceburg]

3. Was this a retaliatory hit ???

Looks like * may have made the first strike on those opposed to the elections:

http://washingtontimes.com/world/20041123-120552-1474r.htm
Nov 23, 2004
snip...
Gunmen yesterday assassinated Sheik Faidh Mohamed Amin al-Faidhi, a member of the influential Association of Muslim Scholars, which has called for a Sunni boycott of the elections in protest of this month's U.S.-led assault on Fallujah.
/snip

[villagechild]

5. next in line

whomever opposes the election will be shot on sight, that's democracy?

[KingChicken]

4. They always drive such nice cars too, forget the toyota pickup... nt

[SKKY]

6. We should get ready for this kind of stuff...

...because it's going to be happening A LOT here shortly.