Iraqi Insurgents Attack Polling Stations

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050126/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents staged attacks against U.S. forces, schools to be used as polling stations and political party offices on Wednesday, as they pressed a bloody campaign to undermine Iraq (news - web sites)'s weekend elections. A U.S. Marine transport helicopter crashed in western Iraq.


In Baghdad's Sadr City district, Iraqi forces backed by U.S. troops raided a Shiite mosque, detaining up to 25 followers of a radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, police and the cleric's supporters said.


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U.S. troops found at least six bombs at different locations around Baghdad, the military said. Iraqi police discovered two more bombs in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, where turnout in the Sunday national elections is expected to be high.


In a statement, the U.S. command said the six bombs were discovered early Wednesday in widely scattered areas of the Iraqi capital.

[On the Road]

1. So the Result Is:

Now we will not only have secret candidates, but secret polling places. What a farce!