Numbers being reported by most wire services:UIA, the main Shiite list: 47.6 per cent PUK/KDP Kurdish coalition: 25.4 per cent Allawi's list: 13.6 per cent.Reuters: Overall turnout was 8.55 million votes, which was 58 percent of those registered to vote. The Shi'ite...
Well, war has broken out yet again in Mosul, but never mind all that because finally, two weeks after the "elections" we are promised results, allegedly by tomorrow morning. The suspense is a killer, but by tomorrow, we might know by what margin Ayatollah Sistani has...
Knight Ridder's Tom Lasseter reports some Iraqi election returns:In final results released Friday for local elections in Baghdad, a city with large Sunni neighborhoods, Shiite cleric-led parties posted large numbers and Sunni tickets gathered relatively few votes. The...
Ali, disgruntled former IraqtheModel blogger, now of the Free Iraqi blog decided to comment on the Michael Totten post in which he tells of how he and Christopher Hitchens manage to piss some Iraqis off so badly, they nearly came to blows in a restaurant. Shorter Ali:...
AFP reports:Hundreds of Arab and Turkmen protestors took to the streets of Iraq's disputed northern oil city of Kirkuk Friday, charging that last month's election had been riddled with fraud and demanding a re-run. "No, no to federalism! No, no to fraud!", chanted the...
Bronwen Maddox in The Times reports:It is also encouraging — up to a point — that the recruiting drive to the security forces has seen such interest from Shias. Some Iraqi security officers have told The Times that Shia recruitments make up as much as three quarters...
It's unclear exactly what is going on south of Baghdad other than utter chaos, but here are two bizarre stories in the news today: At least 10 Iraqi policemen were killed in a gun battle with insurgents south of Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said. The battle,...
Ballot-counting in Iraq isn't going very well:Iraqi officials said Wednesday they must recount votes from about 300 ballot boxes because of various discrepancies, delaying final results from the landmark national elections. Hundreds perhaps thousands of other ballots...
Whoops! The IDF "accidentally" attacks an Israeli town with fake Katyusha rockets. via xymphora
You'll never believe who said this:I am — just bite down hard and say it, man — with Senator Edward Kennedy on this. I want U.S. forces to leave Iraq ASAP. If the place then descends into chaos, I'm fine with it. What's that you say? It would be awful hard on the...
