Protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008. Some 300 Shiites Iraqis rallied against a U.S.-Iraqi security pact currently under negotiation. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)Iraq's Main Sunni Party Suspends Contacts With US -- Yahoo News/AP
BAGHDAD – Iraq's largest Sunni party said Saturday that it has suspended official contacts with American military personnel and civilians after the killing of a man near Fallujah.
The Iraqi Islamic Party accused the raid of having a "hidden political motive" in an indication of rising tensions in Anbar province ahead of provincial elections, due to be held by the end of January.
The U.S. military said U.S.-backed Iraqi soldiers arrested a wanted insurgent leader suspected of training roadside bomb cells in an operation Friday that killed an armed man who opened fire on the troops.
The IIP alleged that a senior member of the party was killed in his bed and five others were arrested during the raid in the Halabsa area on the outskirts of the former insurgent stronghold.
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My Comment: Tensions are rising in Iraq .... Iraqi Provincial elections are around the corner, and there is now a realization that there is going to be a change in leadership in Washington.