38 killed on Iraq polling day
BAGHDAD (Agencies) – Millions of Iraqis braved waves of deadly rocket, mortar and bomb attacks that killed 38 to vote Sunday in a general election seen as a test of the war-shattered nation’s young democracy.
“We don’t care about the bombs. The people will vote,” said Abbas Hussein, jangling a…
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