Iraq Elections

Iraqi Elections: Share Your Experiences, Photos

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

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Iraqi voters go to the polls this Saturday for the first time since 2005 as they cast their ballots in provincial elections. Early voting began Wednes...

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Iraqi Elections: Thousands Of Women Defy Conservative Attitudes And Run For Office

Nytimes.com | SAM DAGHER | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD -- Amal Kibash, a candidate for the Baghdad provincial council, is running a bold and even feverish campaign by most standards. With elections...

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Iraq Ballot Vote Sees Allegations Of Corruption, Intimidation

The National Newspaper | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD // It was the country's first ballot of 2009 -- a year that could see 10 different elections in Iraq -- and according to some voters, it was m...

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Iran Sees Iraq's Upcoming Elections As Opportunity To Gain Influence, Pentagon Says

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Iran is likely to use this year's elections in Iraq to try and extend its influence over the country even as it trains, funds and ...

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Tom Ricks: Obama's War In Iraq May Last Longer Than Bush's

Foreign Policy | Tom Ricks | Posted 05.25.2011

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News flash for the president-elect: All our troops are combat troops. It isn't like some American soldiers stroll around Iraq unarmed. Nor do the insu...

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Iraq Approves Election Law Months Behind Schedule

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's presidential council on Friday ratified a law that paves the way for the first provincial elections in four years, officials sa...

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Iraqi Provincial Elections Law Overwhelming Approved By Parliament, Reconciliation Efforts Boosted

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Under intense U.S. pressure, Iraq's parliament approved a law Wednesday paving the way for the first provincial elections in four year...

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Iraqi Electoral Officials Ambushed By Gunmen

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Masked gunmen ambushed a bus carrying election workers in southern Iraq on Monday, killing two of them including an official known for...

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Reading The Pictures: Latest Cover For Iraq's Core Meltdown

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

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Remarkable, isn't it, how this cover -- illustrating Sunday's NYT Mag lead story on Iraq -- manages to reduce what is otherwise Russian Roulette with a Rubik's Cube to a one-liner?

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Battle Over Oil-Rich Kirkuk Threatens To Derail Iraq Elections

McClatchy Newspapers | Leila Fadel and Sahar Issa | Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite intense U.S. pressure, Iraqi legislators Sunday failed to reach an agreement to solve an increasingly bitter dispute over the oil-rich norther...

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Confessions of an Anti-Iraq War Democrat: Memories of a Purple Finger

Lanny Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Many anti-war Democrats now see a moral obligation (after all the carnage and destruction wrought by our military intervention) not just to pick up and leave Iraq without looking over our shoulders.

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Shiite Power Struggle Threatens Iraq Elections

United Press International | Posted 05.25.2011

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Iraq's provincial elections may be threatened by rivalries between Shiite groups whose differences affect the country's balance of power. Shiites gen...

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National Review Blogger Terrified Of New Five-Dollar Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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National Review blogger Mark Krikorian is all upset at the changes that have been made to U.S. currency, fingering the redesign of the five-dollar bil...

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Iraqi Council Strikes Down Key Law

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's presidential council rejected a plan for new provincial elections and sent the bill back to parliament Wednesday for reworking,...

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