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| | Iraq: In cold blood: abuses by armed groups |
 | | Before the elections, voters in many parts of Iraq, especially in Baghdad and in northern and western towns and cities, received many threats, including that they would be killed, that their children would be abducted and that their houses would be burned down. |
 | | On 25 January 2005, a judge, Qais Hashem al-Shamari, aged 32, the secretary of Iraq's Council of Judges, was shot dead together with his son in an ambush by armed men in a car. |
 | | On 16 January Riadh Radhi, a candidate in Basra's provincial council elections, held at the same time as elections for the National Assembly, was killed when gunmen fired on his car as he was driving with his family. |
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