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  • Joyful Iraqi Exiles Vote in Landmark Election

    01/28/2005 11:11:09 AM PST · by Pharmboy · 20 replies · 436+ views
    World - Reuters ^ | 1-28-05 | Suleiman al-Khalidi
    AMMAN (Reuters) - Jubilant Iraqi exiles cast their ballots in a "vote for freedom" on Friday and urged their compatriots in Iraq to defy insurgents and do the same. An Iraqi man shows his right index finger stained with blue ink after his casting his vote in an Amman polling station, January 28, 2005. Iraqis living abroad enthusiastically cast the first ballots in their homeland's landmark election and urged countrymen back home to defy insurgents and vote for democratic Iraq (news - web sites). (Ali Jarekji/Reuters) In the United States, Iraqi expatriates defied frigid temperatures and long trips to the...