From: Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Quote of the day:
On Sunday, the sun will rise on the land of Mesopotamia. I can't wait, the dream is becoming true
and I will stand in front of the box to put my heart in it.
Mohammed (www.IraqTheModel.Blogspot.com)
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents threatened a bloodbath on Sunday when Iraqis go to the polls in an election intended to unite the country and quell violence but which could instead foment sectarian strife.
Iraq was under security lockdown for Iraq's first multi-party elections in nearly half a century.
Borders were sealed, airports closed and only official vehicles allowed on the streets after heavy bloodshed on the eve of voting, including a bold rocket strike that killed two Americans at the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad's Green Zone.
Insurgent groups, including a jihadist faction led by al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, have vowed to bomb "infidel" polling stations and kill anyone who dares to vote.
"For the last time, we warn that (Sunday) will be bloody for the Christians and Jews and their mercenaries and whoever takes part in the (election) game of America and Allawi," Zarqawi's faction said in a statement posted on an Islamist Web site.
=== jc comment====
Blogs aside, Let us pray that this election proceeds and concludes without any untoward incident.
jc
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