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Chalabi Lacks Votes Needed to Win Spot in Iraqi Assembly
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Tariq Hashimi, secretary general of the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni group, said his organization also was "negotiating with all factions, including representatives of the Shiite alliance."
Iraq's election commission said Monday it still had found no evidence of any fraud serious enough to change the outcome of the elections.
Violence Monday targeted government security forces and officials. About 25 insurgents attacked a checkpoint run by an Iraqi SWAT team outside Baqubah, about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, said Kanan Hameed, a SWAT team member whom authorities say survived only because he was elsewhere during the attack.
"The attack lasted for one hour. We were waiting for any support from the Iraqi police or the American forces, but no one came," Hameed said.
"The men fought until they ran out of ammunition,'' said Awf Rahomi, deputy governor of Diyala province.
Baqubah, the capital of Diyala, has been the scene of Sunni protests against the election results. A roadside bombing Monday, apparently targeting the governor, wounded him and killed one of his guards, spokesman Ali Khaiyam said. A separate attack killed a female member of the provincial council, police in Baqubah said.
Armed men near Latifiyah, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, stormed the house of a Shiite family Monday and killed four men of the family in front of the women and children, a police spokesman said. Other killings Monday included the assassination of the local deputy chief of the Supreme Council party in Najaf.
In Baghdad, an American soldier on patrol was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade. Also, at least three bombs hit the predominantly Shiite Karrada district, killing at least one person.
"The resistance is doing the right thing," Uthman Abdullah, a taxi driver, said after the Karrada bombings. "They should never let the Shiites enjoy taking control of the country. The holy warriors should show them one black day after another. This is the only language that these people will understand."
Correspondent Jonathan Finer and special correspondents Omar Fekeiki and K.I. Ibrahim contributed to this report.
