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Iraq battens down for elections view story
Saturday, January 29, 2005
AP's HAMZA HENDAWI - - Detroit News
| Just ahead of the first free balloting in Iraq in half a century, the nation battened down for the vote, imposing a 7 p.m.-6 a.m. curfew on Friday and closing Baghdad International Airport. Five U.S. soldiers were killed in the capital and insurgents blasted polling stations across the country.
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