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2 Iraqi Policemen Killed, 4 Injured

Good morning,

Two police officers were killed and four others were wounded by a roadside bomb that exploded next to an Interior Ministry patrol in northern Mosul, according to officials at Jumhouri hospital.

Today Iraq is basically shut down, and quiet before the vote which is set for tomorrow. About 15 million citizens are expected to show up at the polling booths. Today Iraqi's are contemplating over their Parliment representatives. Iraq's election commission said it had registered 6,655 candidates on 996 lists and had certified 307 political groups either in the form of single candidates or parties and 19 coalitions. Baghdad is the biggest electoral district, with 2,161 candidates running for 59 of the 275 seats in parliament, according to commission's executive director, Adel Ali al-Lami. There are 33,000 polling stations around Iraq.

The Interior Ministry denied reports that a tanker truck filled with thousands of blank ballots had been confiscated in a town near the Iranian border.

This is the third time this year Iraqi citizens have gone to the polling booths. They are hoping that this vote for the permanent parliment will finally shut down the violence in Iraq.

posted by Wink @ 9:37 AM