Iraq to Vote Shadowed by Threat of Bloodbath
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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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BAGHDAD -- Iraqis voted yesterday in historic national elections in unexpectedly large numbers, despite insurgent attacks on voters and polling stations that killed at least 35 people and injured at least 171. Nine attackers also died.
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Saddam may be on trial, and polling day round the corner, but there is no end to the violence caution, compromise and a good deal of fear dog Iraqâs faltering steps toward what its American occupiers hope will become democracy after Iraqis vote six
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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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Iraq begins sending ballot boxes to the provinces for Sunday's  election, as new violence kills at least 12.
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Iraqis in two of the country's most troubled provinces will be permitted to register and vote on the day of elections, the head of Iraq's electoral commission said Saturday.
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In just over seven weeks Iraqis will head to 9000 polling places to elect a 275 member transitional assembly. It will be the nation&#39;s first democratic election.
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The first post-Saddam Hussein elections in Iraq will take place on January 30 despite boycott calls from Sunni Muslims, violence and disaster over the country, announced Iraq on Sunday.
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Iraq had a rare moment out of the world spotlight in the past week, eclipsed by the tsunami devastation in Southeast Asia. But the country saw a host of critically important political developments and deadly attacks that could cripple elections set for Jan. 30, and that suggest the insurgents are refining their strategy to wreck the vote.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A group of leading political parties on Friday called for a six-month delay to the Jan. 30 parliamentary elections, expressing concerns that widening violence would make voting impossible in large swaths of Iraq.
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An escalating political rift among Iraq&#39;s main religious groups and continued violence throughout the country are threatening parliamentary elections set for January.
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BAGHDAD  - Iraq&#39;s landmark January polls looked set to take place as planned although the violence that prompted delay calls remained rife, as an anti-rebel sweep south of Baghdad claimed its first victims and five US troops died in western Iraq.
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Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage says violence in Iraq is bound to increase ahead of the country's January elections -- because the insurgents "fear" the balloting.
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Iraq's elections will be legitimate if roughly half the Sunni Arab minority votes despite threats of violence, a leading politician in the Shi'ite alliance expected to dominate the polls said on Saturday.
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Iraq has chosen January 30 for its first democratic election in decades but violence in Sunni Muslim areas is underlining the challenge of holding polls on time.
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Elections in Iraq scheduled to take place by Jan. 31 may be postponed by continued widespread violence or a coordinated boycott by Sunni Muslims, US and Iraqi officials said.
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PARIS Sept. 28, 2004 - Extremists will have the upper hand in Iraqi elections if voting is held amid the current violence, Jordan&#39;s King Abdullah II said in an interview published Tuesday, voicing profound