Andrew Gilligan, of the London Evening Standard, reporting from Iraq:
“Groups of men sat outside their shops, showing each other the ink-marked index fingers they got when they voted. It was a Shia area. so no problems about turnout. No doubt about what voters wanted either.
“‘Now we are democratic, the Americans must do what we ask, finish their mission and then leave,’ said Alaa Kadlim, as two Apache helicopters flew overhead. And will they? ‘They must,’ she says.”