Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Under threat, Iraqis vote in crucial election (Reuters)
• Key players in Iraq's parliamentary elections (AP)
• A look at the major coalitions in Iraq's election (AP)
• A look at this Sunday's election in Iraq (AP)
• Timeline of events in Iraq (AP)
• French politician brings Paris glamour to Iraq vote (AFP)
• Upstart Iraqi bloc seeks 'peaceful uprising' in Kurdistan (AFP)
• Deadly car bomb rocks Iraq holy city on election eve (AFP)
• Iraq's vote key test for a democracy in progress (AP)
• Election security 'an all-Iraq show': US general (AFP)
• British PM faces Iraq inquiry backlash (AFP)
• Bomb kills 4 near Shi'ite shrine before Iraq poll (Reuters)
• Bomb in Iraq shrine city kills 3 injures 54: police (AFP)
• Iraqis abroad cast ballots in homeland's election (AP)
• Ill. judge won't toss torture suit naming Rumsfeld (AP)

Under threat, Iraqis vote in crucial election (Reuters) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 03:00 PM PST Reuters - Iraqis vote on Sunday in a parliamentary election that will help to determine whether their shaky democracy can end sectarian conflict and defeat insurgents who are trying to plunge Iraq back into broader bloodshed.

Key players in Iraq's parliamentary elections (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 12:32 PM PST AP - A look at the key political players in Iraq's March 7 parliamentary elections:

A look at the major coalitions in Iraq's election (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 12:31 PM PST AP - A look at the major alliances, coalitions expected to take part in Iraq's parliamentary elections:

A look at this Sunday's election in Iraq (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 12:28 PM PST AP - Some basic information about Iraq's parliamentary elections on Sunday:

Timeline of events in Iraq (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 12:28 PM PST AP - A timeline of key events in Iraq, beginning with the U.S.-led invasion to the March 7 parliamentary elections:

French politician brings Paris glamour to Iraq vote (AFP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:25 AM PST AFP - Rachida Dati, the first Muslim woman to hold a top job in the French government, brought a touch of Parisian glamour on Saturday to Iraq's elections with a stroll along the Tigris river in Baghdad.

Upstart Iraqi bloc seeks 'peaceful uprising' in Kurdistan (AFP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:21 AM PST AFP - In March 1991, Kurdish rebels rose up against Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in what is known in the region simply as "the uprising". Almost 19 years later to the day, a new political force in the region is hoping for a "peaceful uprising" of its own.

Deadly car bomb rocks Iraq holy city on election eve (AFP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:17 AM PST AFP - A car bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims killed three people in Iraq's holiest city on Saturday on the eve of the country's parliamentary election which Al-Qaeda has threatened to wreck.

Iraq's vote key test for a democracy in progress (AP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 11:00 AM PST AP - Billed as a key test of Iraq's nascent democracy, Iraqis fear Sunday's parliamentary election will lead to a protracted period of uncertainty as the winners and losers try to cobble together a new government — even as American forces prepare to go home.

Election security 'an all-Iraq show': US general (AFP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 05:52 AM PST AFP - A top US military officer insisted on Saturday that a massive security operation for the next day's general election was "an all-Iraq show" requiring little American manpower.

British PM faces Iraq inquiry backlash (AFP) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 04:04 AM PST AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced a backlash Saturday over his testimony to a public inquiry into the Iraq war as ex-military chiefs questioned his claims that the army was adequately funded.

Bomb kills 4 near Shi'ite shrine before Iraq poll (Reuters) Posted: 06 Mar 2010 02:07 AM PST Reuters - A car bomb killed four Iranian pilgrims near Iraq's holiest Shi'ite shrine on Saturday, a day before a parliamentary election that Sunni Islamist militants have vowed to wreck.

Bomb in Iraq shrine city kills 3 injures 54: police (AFP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 11:35 PM PST AFP - A powerful car bomb near a Shiite shrine in Iraq's holy city of Najaf on Saturday killed two Iranian pilgrims and an Iraqi and injured at least 54 people, police and medical officials said.

Iraqis abroad cast ballots in homeland's election (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 06:30 PM PST AP - Thousands of Iraqis living abroad lined up at polling stations to cast ballots in their homeland's crucial parliamentary elections Friday, a constituency Iraq's Sunni Arab minority hope will boost their showing.

Ill. judge won't toss torture suit naming Rumsfeld (AP) Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:08 PM PST AP - A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for the alleged torture by U.S. forces of two Americans who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm.

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