Author: DXO
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Iraqis Begin Tabulating Results of Milestone Election
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 31 – Teams of Iraqi election workers sat down behind banks of computers in Baghdad’s tightly guarded international zone on Monday and began tabulating millions of ballots that will determine the makeup of the country’s 275-seat transitional assembly.
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My Father
My father passed away last Thursday. I am attending his services now, and I will give the full GoogObits treatment to his obituary, but I wanted to make sure I posted it immediately: Obituary: John J. O’Neil / Addictions counselor and PR man Monday, January 31, 2005By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette John J. “Jack” O’Neil,…
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For a Battered Populace, a Day of Civic Passion
By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 30 – Nobody among the hundreds of voters thronging one Baghdad polling station on Sunday could remember anything remotely like it, not even those old enough to have taken part in Iraq’s last partly free elections more than 50 years ago, before the assassination of King Faisal II…
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The Vote, and Democracy Itself, Leave Anxious Iraqis Divided (Complete Text)
January 30, 2005 By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 29 – For Ghassan al-Atiyyah, the journey to Sunday’s elections has been long and painful, sustained by the hope that Iraq would one day embrace the democratic principles that drove him into 20 years of exile. Last month, back in Iraq from London at the…
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Iraqis Vote Amid Tight Security and Scattered Attacks (Complete Text)
The New York Times January 30, 2005 By DEXTER FILKINS BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 30 – Iraqis began casting ballots Sunday morning in the country’s first free elections in more than 50 years, and scattered insurgent attacks began soon after, including a car bombing that killed at least one police officer in western Baghdad. Polling…