Millions of Iraqis Vote; Attacks Kill 35
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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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Bombs killed 30 people in a police   recruitment center in central Iraq and in a popular market in   the north on Monday, as politicians wrangled over a federation   bill some fear could unleash sectarian civil war.
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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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BAGHDAD  - More than a dozen Iraqis were killed in attacks across the country as plans were unveiled to deploy 100,000 Iraqi forces to stave off a bloodbath on election day exactly a month from now.
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At least 35 people were killed and 120  wounded, many of them children, in a set of three car bomb  blasts in southern Baghdad on Thursday, hospital officials  said.
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Gunmen and bombers killed 30 people in Baghdad on Tuesday, including 14 Shi'ite religious workers after a powerful Iraqi Shi'ite leader urged President George Bush to strike harder at Sunni rebels to avert civil war.
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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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A string of car bombs killed 35 children and seven other Iraqis and wounded scores as US troops handed out candy yesterday at a government-sponsored
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BAGHDAD, December 3 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Twenty six people were killed in two separate attacks against police stations in Baghdad Friday, December 3, as US President George W. Bush insisted that elections in the war-scarred country would
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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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Iraqis vote on Sunday in a landmark  election overshadowed by massive security to protect them  against insurgents who killed 20 people on Saturday and have  threatened a polling day bloodbath.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 19--Six weeks before Iraq&#39;s nationwide vote, another blast of violence hit the country Sunday, including two deadly bombings claiming at least a dozen lives
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Insurgents detonated three car bombs  near a U.S. military convoy in southern Baghdad on Thursday,  killing at least 35 people and wounding around 140, many of  them children, officials and doctors said.
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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.
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Election centers have been bombed,  candidates and electoral officials threatened and even killed.  With only a week to go, intimidation is turning Iraq's landmark  polls into a new kind of secret ballot.
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With Iraq's election only three days  away, insurgents bent on wrecking the poll killed 19 Iraqis and  a U.S. Marine on Thursday and bombed polling stations in the  country's Sunni heartland.
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BAGHDAD  - At least 21 people were killed in the latest in a renewed spree of attacks to hit Iraq, as a top UN official issued a stark warning that elections could not be held in the current climate of violence.