Article: In Mosul, Iraqis select an interim mayor.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Byline: Michael Currie Schaffer

MOSUL, Iraq _ Iraqis held the first democratic election in postwar Iraq on Monday, choosing a former Iraqi general whose brother and cousin were executed by Saddam Hussein's regime to become the interim mayor of the ethnically torn northern city of Mosul.

The Mosul election came as the U.S. official in charge of the reconstruction of Iraq, Jay Garner, said a multi-ethnic interim leadership group of about nine people should be selected by Iraqis by the middle of May.

Garner, speaking to reporters in Baghdad, said the leadership group might include Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party; Ahmad ...

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