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4.A militant group calling itself "The Holders of the Black Banners," announced Wednesday it had taken two Kenyans, three Indians and an Egyptian hostage, and said it would behead a captive every 72 hours beginning Saturday night if their countries do not announce their intentions to withdraw troops and citizens from Iraq.
7.The ruling party had obviously taken into consideration the timing and feelings of the people. In addition to the re-drawing of electoral boundaries and the calling of a snap election, it did away with the four-member Group Representation Constituencies to provide for mega constituencies - the five or six-member GRCs - a move that sent the opposition into disarray.

