Iraq election: Freedom's bloody road
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=606002
Yesterday more than a dozen polling stations were bombed and 17 people
killed. Yet today Iraqis take the first dangerous steps to democracy.
Special report by Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad, Kim Sengupta in Basra
and Raymond Whitaker in London
30 January 2005
Mohammed Mahmoud is a rare figure - a Sunni Muslim, living in Baghdad,
who is prepared to say that he is going to vote in today's election,
though he is not foolhardy enough to allow his photograph to be taken.
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