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Iraqi situation
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-01-17 09:05
![A rock thrown by a local youth flies past the head of a British soldier as the troops depart following a raid near the southern Iraq city of Basra January 16, 2005. Unable to deliver on its lofty goal of bringing democracy to Iraq through the January 30 elections, the U.S. administration is pressing a damage-control campaign to lower expectations for the vote. [Reuters]](xin_52010217090872624091.jpg)
A rock thrown by a local youth flies past the head of
a British soldier as the troops depart following a raid near the southern
Iraq city of Basra January 16, 2005. Unable to deliver on its lofty goal
of bringing democracy to Iraq through the January 30 elections, the U.S.
administration is pressing a damage-control campaign to lower expectations
for the vote. [Reuters]
Iraqi
children throw rocks at a U.S. Army armoured vehicle in the Shi'ite neighbourhood of
Sadr City in Baghdad January 16, 2005. Iraq's elections will be legitimate if
roughly half the Sunni Arab minority votes despite threats of violence, a
leading politician in the Shi'ite alliance expected to dominate the
polls said on Saturday. [Reuters] |
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