Posted by Admin on March 7th, 2010 | Categorized as News | Tagged as Baghdad, defy, Drawdown, Election, Fragile Democracy, Insurgent Attacks, Iraqis, Polls, threat, Tight Security, Uncertainty, violence, Vote
Iraqis defy threat of violence to vote in election
BAGHDAD (AP) – Under a blanket of tight security designed to thwart insurgent attacks, Iraqis went to the polls Sunday in an election testing the ability of the country’s still-fragile democracy to move forward amid uncertainty over a looming U.S. troop drawdown and still jagged sectarian divisions.
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Posted by Admin on March 7th, 2010 | Categorized as News | Tagged as Baghdad, Hospital Officials, Iraqi Police, Iraqis, killed, Mortar Attack, People, Polls, Wqow Eau Claire
7 killed in Baghdad as Iraqis go to polls
Iraqi police and hospital officials say a mortar attack in Baghdad has killed four people in western Baghdad bringing the number of people who’ve died as Iraqis go to the polls Sunday to seven.
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