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January 30, 2005

Photos From Iraq

An Iraqi woman holds her finger aloft for the ink to dry after voting at a school in the town of Abu Al Khasib on the southern edge of the Iraqi city of Basra. -AFP
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A member of U.S. Marines from 3/8 H & S-PSD take their position from a walkway overlooking an empty highway near a voting centre in Al Anbar province 23 kilometres west of Baghdad, Iraq January 30, 2005. Millions of Iraqis turned out to vote on Sunday, defying anti-U.S. insurgents determined to drown the historic poll in blood. –Reuters
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Disabled Iraqi man Mohammed Karim Khader, 80, is carried on the back of another man on his way to cast his vote in the northern Kurdish city of Suleimaniya, January 30, 2005. Insurgents unleashed a wave of bloody attacks on Iraq's historic election on Sunday, killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens in suicide bombings and mortar strikes at polling stations across the country. -Reuters
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An Iraqi girl looks at her mother casting her vote at a polling station in Amman. Fear and hope gripped Sunni Arab governments as they awaited the outcome of Iraq's first free election in 50 years, as Shiite Iran warned that the United States might not accept the result. (AFP)

Posted by Peter Mork at January 30, 2005 8:28 PM

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