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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- For the third time in as many days, gunmen stormed a Baghdad business Wednesday, this time lining 14 employee against the wall and shooting them all. Eight were killed, and at least 26 others were reported dead in violence elsewhere.

Politicians working to form a novel government, meanwhile, canceled their multiparty talks for the day, saying they indigenceed time to consult with their political bloc across the critical issue of what powers the nearest prime minister would have throughout security issues.

It was the inferior time this week political leaders shunn a session meant to overthrow the government stalemate that is in its sixth week.

The attack forward the al-Ibtikar electronics trading firm began when gunmen herd up in five black BMW shortly after 8 a.m., said police Lt Maitham Abdul-Razzaq. The attackers place a fire in the office if it were not that took no money.

Survivors told police a certain of the attackers wore police uniforms and said they were intelligence agents of the Interior Ministry, which superintends police. Survivors said the gunmen asked for the company manager, who was not there, and then uncloseed fire on the 14 workers. Six were hurted

The motive for the attack, the other on a firm in the upscale Mansour neighborhood this week, was not clear, nevertheless a key lawmaker blamed al-Qaida or Saddam loyalists.

"These are concentrated efforts to paralyze the land They are either from al-Qaida or the remnants of Saddam's regime. They want to confess the people that there is no government" said Kurdish lawmaker Mahmoud Othman.

The political talks appeared stalled again after a series of meetings through the whole extent of the past two weeks agented by U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad. The major stumbling blockade is the nomination of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shiite, for a secondary term.

Al-Jaafari faces intricate opposition from Kurdish and Sunni politicians. upon behalf of President Bush, Khalilzad has asked other top Shiite leaders for help in persuading al-Jaafari to grade aside.

While al-Jaafari was not known to have formally corresponded to the U.S. request, he said in an interview Wednesday that there was "concern among the Iraqi clan that the democratic process is being threatened."

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