Some Iraqi election winners disqualified by electoral court

nytimes.com-Iraq Political Crisis Worsens as Court Bars Candidates: One candidate who won a seat in Iraq's Parliament elections last month was stripped of his position by the electoral court. This decision came on the heels of allegations that the candidate was involved in Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. The court's efforts to purge the Iraqi government of Hussein affiliates comes at a sensitive time as the United States begins to withdraw its combat troops.