Iraq election winners face ban over Baath links

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Source: ABC News AU

Six candidates who won parliamentary seats at Iraq's elections face losing them just days after results were announced, the body charged with barring Saddam Hussein loyalists said.

At least one of the six is a member of former prime minister Iyad Allawi's secular Iraqiya bloc, which came first in the March 7 poll.

The six were among a group of more than 50 names initially put forward as parliamentary hopefuls earlier this month to replace candidates previously barred by the Justice and Accountability Committee (JAC).

"On March 3, the election commission presented 54 names to replace those who had been banned" by the JAC for their alleged links to Saddam's Baath Party, said the body's executive director Ali al-Lami.

"We informed the commission that 52 of those people fell under the committee's responsibility and six of them won a seat in parliament," he said.

"We have evidence and documents showing their affiliations and political responsibilities within the Baath."

Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/30/2859614.htm?section=justin

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1. Do they purposely want more sectarian violence?

They better let it go.