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An elderly Iraqi man casts his ballot in national elections in Baghdad January 30, 2005. A suicide bomber strapped with explosives blew himself up at a polling centre in western Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding nine, police sources said. It was the third suicide attack on polling stations in the west of the Iraqi capital. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz

An election worker shows an Iraqi woman where to cast her ballot in national elections in Baghdad January 30, 2005. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a queue of voters outside a west Baghdad polling station on Sunday, causing several casualties, and a blast at another polling centre in Sadr City killed at least four people, officials said. Police said mortar attacks on several polling stations around Baghdad had killed and wounded several people but did not have precise casualty figures. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz

An Iraqi woman is searched before entering a polling station to cast her vote in the southern city of Basra, January 30, 2005. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a queue of voters outside a west Baghdad polling station on Sunday, causing several casualties, and a blast at another polling centre in Sadr City killed at least four people, officials said. Police said mortar attacks on several polling stations around Baghdad had killed and wounded several people but did not have precise casualty figures. REUTERS/Atef Hassan

2,057 posted on 01/30/2005 12:19:08 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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Iraqi men show their inked fingers after voting in the country's national elections, at al-Batool polling station in eastern Baghdad, January 30, 2005. Insurgents threatening an election day bloodbath killed at least 12 people on Sunday in a string of bombings and mortar attacks on polling stations in Iraq's first multi-party ballot in half a century. REUTERS/Ali Jasim

An Iraqi policeman helps a blind woman on her way to a polling station in Baghdad, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005. Iraqis voted Sunday in their country's first free election in a half-century, defying threats of violence from insurgents vowing to sabotage the balloting. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)

2,150 posted on 01/30/2005 12:51:06 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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