Iraqi election opens under violence
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-01-29 22:26

An Iraqi traffic policeman approaches a box to cast his ballot during the country's national elections early in the morning in the southern city of Basra, January 30, 2005. Iraq's first multiparty polls in half a century began at dawn on Sunday, elections intended to unite the country but which could instead foment sectarian strife and which insurgents have vowed to turn into a bloodbath. [Reuters]

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