Iraqis Defy Threats to Vote for Assembly
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Iraqis embraced democracy in large numbers Sunday, standing in long lines to vote in defiance of mortar attacks, suicide bombers and boycott calls. Pushed in wheelchairs or carts if they couldn't walk, the elderly, the young and women in veils cast ballots in Iraq's first free election in a half-century.
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Tens of thousands of Iraqis, notably in  restive Sunni Arab areas, may have been denied their right to  vote on Sunday because of insufficient ballots and polling  centers, officials said.
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When Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi promised US lawmakers elections in Iraq would be held on time in January, Republicans roared and Democrats politely clapped despite their doubts.
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Millions of Iraqis flocked to vote in a  historic election on Sunday, defying insurgents who killed 35  people in a bloody assault on the poll.
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Thousands of Iraqis voted abroad Sunday as their compatriots at home braved bombs and threats to go the polls in the first multi-party election in 50 years.
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Iraq&#39;s plans to hold elections in January have gained traction after a Shi&#39;ite militia agreed to disarm in Baghdad and delegates from rebel-held Falluja said the Sunni Muslim city wanted to vote in the polls.
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Iraq's election body rejected a  suggestion in Washington it adjust the results of next month's  vote to benefit the Sunni minority if low turnout in Sunni  areas means Shi'ites win an exaggerated majority in the new  assembly.
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US Senate foes of President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy are making a new attempt to hold a symbolic censure vote, one day after the president's plan to increase US troop strength in Iraq was repudiated by the House.
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Iraq stood on the verge of its first free election in a half-century Saturday, its borders and bridges locked down, its hopes on the line. The government urged Iraqis to vote despite their fears of violence, even as insurgents rocketed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, killing two Americans.
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Insurgents threatened a bloodbath on  Sunday when Iraqis go to the polls in an election intended to  unite the country and quell violence but which could instead  foment sectarian strife.
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Some came on crutches, others walked  for miles then struggled to read the ballot, but across most of  Iraq millions turned out to vote Sunday, defying insurgent  threats of a bloodbath.
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Millions of Iraqis flocked to vote in a historic election on Sunday, defying insurgents who killed 35 people in a bloody assault on the poll.
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Insurgents exposed the vulnerability of Iraq's security forces again Sunday, killing at least 22 national guardsmen and their driver in a suicide bombing and 10 other people in separate attacks with elections just weeks away. Prominent Shiite leaders called for unity with Sunni Arabs wanting to delay the vote but insisted it be held despite the violence.
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AMMAN, Jordan  - Thousands of Iraqis voted abroad  Sunday as their compatriots at home braved bombs and threats to  go the polls in the first multi-party election in 50 years.
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The Iraqi prime minister insisted Sunday that the raging insurgency &#151; which has claimed 300 lives in the last week alone and resulted in a wave of kidnappings &#151; will not delay January elections, promising the vote will strike a "major blow" against the violent opposition.
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The Iraqi government yesterday brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election, and a spokesman for the majority Shiite community called the date ``nonnegotiable
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Two-thirds of registered voters in the  Iraqi capital say they will cast their ballots in the Jan. 30  election despite the threat of violence, an independent Iraqi  newspaper survey found Monday.