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Iraqis defy intimidation to vote, attacks kill 36 (AP)

March 7th, 2010 | Author: admin

Zahiya Kadim, who is blind, displays her inked finger after casting her vote in Basra, Iraq, Sunday, March 7, 2010. Under a blanket of tight security designed to thwart insurgents attacks, Iraqis went to the polls on foot Sunday in an election testing the ability of the country's still-fragile democracy to move forward at a time of uncertainty over a looming U.S. troop drawdown and still jagged sectarian divisions. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP – Insurgents bombed a polling station and lobbed grenades at voters Sunday, killing 36 people in attacks aimed at intimidating those taking part in an election that will determine whether the country can overcome the sectarian divisions that have plagued it since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.


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