Iraqi voters head to polls for historic ballot (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Sat, 03/06/2010 - 10:32pm

A resident casts his vote at a polling station in Baghdad's Sadr City March 7, 2010.<br /><br />Polling stations opened in Iraq on Sunday for a parliamentary election seen as crucial to the future of a country seeking stability after years of bloodshed.<br /><br />REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS)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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