Posted on 01/29/2005 1:53:38 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
A riot has broken out at a polling station in Sydney, Australia, between expatriate Iraqi voters and protesters opposed to the poll.
The disturbance broke out when a group of 20 protesters started to shout insults at voters leaving the centre.
Iraqis around the world have been going to the polls in a second day of voting.
Almost 30% of those registered to vote in 14 countries around the world turned out on Friday. Voting will continue until Sunday evening.
About one quarter of the estimated 1.2m Iraqis living abroad have registered to vote.
"If we don't vote, who else would come forward to define the future of Iraq?" said Leo Bahribeh, voting with his father at a military base in California.
Bernie Hogan, head of Australia's overseas voting programme, said the protesters held flags similar to those seen in videos released by Iraqi insurgents.
An Iraqi adviser to the International Organization for Migration, which is organising the out-of-country voting, said the fight was sparked when protesters took pictures of people who had voted.
"This is scary for the people," said Thair Wali.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
It would be interesting to know a little about who the anti-vote protesters were. Were they Iraqis or islamic Arabs of some sort, or were they Australian leftists?
I would imagine the Aussie authorities were expecting this and will be watching these jihadiis in their midst. I'd hate to see a replay of the Copt episode, here. I was surprised to not hear of anything like this here.
My bet is on some Iraqi Sunnites.
I'll take an unholy alliance between the two.
They were waving Jihadist's flags and no word is said about their identity, so it's obviously Muslims.
Good question, the article does not make it clear; unless I am badly misreading it. One would think if they (the author or authors of the article) did not know the reason they would admit it, and if they knew the reason they would have provided it.
Bad reporting.
The first thing I was looking for in this story was who the protesters were. Strange that their identity wasn't reported.
Poll? You mean the VOTE?
These reporters make their bias so easily known...so very transparant.
I imagine if a bunch of communists showed up at a voting place here in Idaho, with communist flags waiving and began insulting and intimidating American citizen voters on election day that some significant fisticuffs or worse would develop as well.
This must be a logistical nightmare.
Anyone know the whereabouts of Ted Kennedy?
Here's a little more information:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331214/posts
After reading the article I guess they weren't white but still should have been shot.
Orchestrated by the BBC?
When something crucial to the story is left out, they've decided that you don't or shouldn't know. In this case the protesters would be Muslims.
It's gotten where reading/looking/hearing the news is like a game show.
Or Michael Moore-Ted Kennedy Democrats?
Michael Moore, Bruce Springsteen, Brian Becker, Gael Murphy, Suzie "Medea" Benjamin, Ramsey Clark, Barbara Boxer, Robert "KKK" Byrd, AlGore, John Effin' Kerry, Peta Lindsey, Susan Sarandon, Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schroeder...
No wait... they are on their way to Iraq to act as human shields, protecting Iraqi voters against the terrorist bombers at polling places.
No, wait again... they are on a conference call with Bin Laden and Saddam, getting their latest talking points/marching orders.
The "protesters" are no doubt your typical, garden variety Islamists.
Every country's got 'em.
Nah. They contracted it out to Washington State.
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