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IRAQ Voters entered a final lap in a triple round of elections this year—choosing a parliamentary government to serve four years under a constitution approved in October. If violence did not deter most Iraqis from the polls, it halted key candidates from office. Assassins gunned down Sunni political honcho Mizhar al-Dulaimi on Dec. 13 as he campaigned for office in Ramadi. He became one in a line of pro-democracy Sunnis killed in the runup to elections. Unidentified gunmen shot Sheik Hamza Abbas in Fallujah, where he once brokered a truce with U.S. forces and had been critical of the Sunni-led insurgency.

Voting began in select prisons and hospitals Dec. 12 and opened to Iraqis living overseas Dec. 13, just as Iraq's borders were sealed and a curfew imposed as security measures ahead of polls opening Dec. 15.

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December 24, 2005, Vol. 20, No. 50

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