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[Dinar Daddy's Tidbits] * Iraqi elections: America's final hurdle | Dinar Daddy's Tidbits: To block the emerging Sunni challenge, Shiite parties banded together and pried an endorsement from their normally tight-lipped religious leadership in the Holy Shiite city of Najaf.  Shiite clerics - including the highly respected Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani - quietly approved of what became known as the “Shiite List.”

[Conservative Viewpoint Blog] Radical Cleric Makes Surprise Endorsement of Iraqi Elections as ...: The Kurdish Alliance, made up of the main Kurdish political parties who dominate in their self-rule northern region, won’t form the government in this Shiite-majority country, but their political unity means they will likely help decide who does. Key to their negotiations will be the future of Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that is claimed by both Arabs and Kurds.

[Fiza News] High turnout in Iraq polls despite violence | Fiza News: At least 19 people died in northeastern Baghdad after explosions leveled two buildings about a mile apart, and mortar attacks in western Baghdad killed seven people in two different neighborhoods, police and hospital officials said. In Mosul, police said unidentified gunmen threw a grenade on a polling center, wounding six voters.

[All Stories | The Aiken Standard] Obama: Iraq vote was 'important milestone' | Aiken Standard ...: The election was seen as a crossroads where Iraq will decide whether to adhere to politics along the Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish lines or move away from the ethnic and sectarian tensions that have emerged since the fall of Saddam's iron-fisted, Sunni-minority rule.

[MashTrends] Car bomb rocks Iraq shrine city on eve of elections | MashTrends: “You must go to the voting centres because it is your duty,” said Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Jorani, Sunni imam of the Al-Hai mosque in the central city of Baquba, where 33 people were killed in three suicide .Ahmed al-Safi, a representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, the country's revered top Shiite cleric, said the election was a “huge vital issue,” essential to ensuring Iraqis can “draw their own future.” .

[The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment] Iraqi voters undaunted by attacks that kill 36 | The Daily Caller ...: An electoral worker walks past piles of ballot boxes at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 8, 2010. The conclusion of Sunday's vote does not spell an immediate end to Iraq's political uncertainty, as it could be days until results come in and with the fractured nature of Iraqi politics, months to form a government.

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[World] Iraqis look forward to vote but fear chaotic aftermath with no ...: The U.S.-backed leader also faces intense pressure from his former Shiite allies ”” the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council and the Sadrist Trend led by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ”” who are closely allied with Iran and have teamed up in a separate alliance. 22, 2006, bombing of a golden domed Shiite mosque north of Baghdad, blamed on Sunni insurgents, set off months of sectarian bloodletting.

[The Great One's Blog...] Iraqi voters undaunted by attacks that kill 36 « The Great One's Blog”¦: An Interior Ministry official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media said a total of 35 people died in Baghdad but did not have a breakdown of where the deaths occurred. In the city of Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of Baghdad, a bomb inside a polling center killed a policeman, bringing the day’s total to 36.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Sunday, Bloody ...: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is fighting for his political future against a coalition led by mainly Shiite religious groups ”” the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council and a party headed by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. He also faces a challenge from secular alliance led by Ayad Allawi, a former prime minister and secular Shiite, who has teamed up with a number of Sunnis in a bid to claim the government.

[mcclatchydc.com: Homepage] In Najaf, Iraq's Shiite clerics push for direct elections | McClatchy: The credibility of Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani and his colleagues has grown in the past two years, both for what he said and for the timing of his utterances -- in particular his repeated admonitions to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr to lay down his arms. Sadr, who's been studying theology in Iran, ignored the advice until Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki cracked down on his Mahdi Army militia, but he now appears to be toeing the line of the Marjaiya, Iraq's supreme Shiite religious authorities, who consist of four high-ranking grand ayatollahs.

[NBF NEWS, FREE HOT NIGERIAN NEWS ONLINE FROM NEWSPAPERS, NIGERIA BEST FORUM BLOG] IRAQ PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION HIT BY INSURGENT ATTACKS | NBF NEWS ...: In Azamiyah (northern Baghdad), Walid Abid, 40, cast his vote to the crumple of mortars exploding not far away. In a rare public appearance, radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, speaking in neighbouring Iran, urged Iraqis to vote and to reject violence.

[arabnews - frontpage] Iraqis defy intimidation to vote, attacks kill 26 - Arab News: In the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah in northern Baghdad, Walid Abid, a 40-year-old father of two, was speaking as mortars landed several hundreds yards (meters) away. Police reported at least 20 mortar attacks in the neighborhood shortly after daybreak and mortars were also launched toward the Green Zone - home to the US Embassy and the prime minister's office.

[mcclatchydc.com: Top Story] Iraqis vote despite explosions, but now comes the hard part ...: Analysts and foreign diplomats agree that the coalitions most likely to win are the self-proclaimed nationalist slate led by Iraq's incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, a Shiite Muslim; the secular, mixed-sect ticket of former premier Ayad Allawi;

[arabnews - frontpage] Iraq's vote key test for a democracy in progress - Arab News: “What you had basically was Kurds voting for Kurds, Sunnis voting for Sunnis and Shiites voting for Shiites,” said former US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad. “This time, it looks like people are moving away, not totally of course, but incrementally away from sectarianism.”

[mcclatchydc.com: Homepage] Iraqi pilgrims visit Samarra's bombed mosque once again | McClatchy: It was also the latest showcase for Muqtada al Sadr, the firebrand Shiite cleric, who's studying to become a religious leader in Iran. Iraqi officials had predicted that as many as a million pilgrims might make the trip, but then Sadr urged his followers a week ago to join the pilgrimage.

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