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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraqi vote shows deep divides still facing country (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 01:11 PM PST

Iraqis walk past election campaign posters for candidates in Baghdad, Iraq on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010. Iraq's national election is due to take place on March 7. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraq is a week away from a parliamentary election that was supposed to showcase a peaceful democracy poised to stand on its own feet after U.S. forces go home. While there have been successes, the vote also underlines the deep ethnic and sectarian tensions that are putting the country's future in the balance — secular or Islamic, pro-Iran or pro-West.

Iraq's top cleric says aides not to join campaigns (AP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 11:40 AM PST

A supporter of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki attends an election rally in the Shiite city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010. Iraq's national election is set for March 7. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - Iraq's top Shiite cleric on Saturday ordered his representatives across the country not to campaign for any blocs or candidates contesting the March 7 parliamentary elections, a move designed to assert the Iranian-born cleric's neutrality.

Iraqis poke fun at their election candidates' posturing (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 10:40 AM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — In the campaign posters that cover Baghdad's public surfaces like wallpaper, Iraqi candidates project an array of demeanors and identities that they hope will sway voters in next month's parliamentary elections.

Kurdish activist injured in Iraq election violence (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 10:37 AM PST

Elections posters are pasted up on a wall showing the image of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in 2009. An opposition activist in Iraqi Kurdistan was injured by supporters of Talabani on Saturday in the regional capital Arbil, an opposition spokesman said, ahead of March 7 polls.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - An opposition activist in Iraqi Kurdistan was injured by supporters of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Saturday in the regional capital Arbil, an opposition spokesman said, ahead of March 7 polls.

US soldiers kill Iraqi tribal chief's son (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 09:10 AM PST

US soldiers patrol a northeastern suburb of Baghdad in 2009. US soldiers have killed an Iraqi tribal chief's son and wounded his wife in what the Americans called a tragic accident, although local accounts of the incident differed.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - US soldiers killed an Iraqi tribal chief's son and wounded his wife in what the Americans on Saturday called a tragic accident, although local accounts of the incident differed.

Evidence against barred Iraq candidates to be released (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 08:27 AM PST

Iraqi Ali al-Lami, head of the Justice and Accountability Committee (JAC), has said evidence that led to candidates being barred from Iraq's March 7 election for suspected links to Saddam Hussein will be released in the coming days. The candidates were banned by the JAC.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Evidence that led to candidates being barred from Iraq's March 7 election for suspected links to Saddam Hussein will be released in the coming days, the head of the committee that disqualified them told AFP on Saturday.

Stay neutral in vote, top cleric tells Iraq clergy (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 08:12 AM PST

Shiite Muslims pray at the Imam Hussein in the Shrine city of Karbala in central Iraq. Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has called on his fellow clerics to stay neutral in next month's general election after one launched a withering attack on close allies of the prime minister.(AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani called on his fellow clerics on Saturday to stay neutral in next month's general election after one launched a withering attack on close allies of the prime minister.

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