Policemen show to media their ink-stained fingers after voting in the provincial election at a polling station in Baghdad January 28, 2009. Soldiers, police, prisoners and displaced people began early voting on Wednesday ahead of Saturday's provincial election in Iraq, which will determine the political landscape across the country as U.S. forces withdraw. The election is the first in Iraq since 2005, and holding it peacefully will be a test of ...
more Policemen show to media their ink-stained fingers after voting in the provincial election at a polling station in Baghdad January 28, 2009. Soldiers, police, prisoners and displaced people began early voting on Wednesday ahead of Saturday's provincial election in Iraq, which will determine the political landscape across the country as U.S. forces withdraw. The election is the first in Iraq since 2005, and holding it peacefully will be a test of Iraq's tenuous stability as it emerges from years of sectarian war. REUTERS/ Thaier al-Sudani
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