The parliamentary
elections are due to take place tomorrow (Wednesday), but late last night a car
bomb was detonated at a polling station in the center of Haditha in western
Anbar, injuring a number of military and police personnel assigned to guarding
the station.
This morning a number
of mortar rounds struck a number of polling stations in Ramadi, indicating the
difficulties being faced in conducting the balloting. The election commission
has announced that it has completed all the preparations for the general
balloting; the commission has set up more than 40 polling stations to be used
by those displaced from their homes in Ramadi and Fallujah and who are now
taking refuge in the western Anbar townships.
In Fallujah, there is
no possibility of conducting any balloting and there are no polling stations in
the city that has continued through today to be plagued by indiscriminate
shelling; 2 women have been declared killed and 7 others were wounded as a
result of the shelling of a number of the city's residential districts.
Clashes and shelling
are also ongoing in Al-Garma's residential districts, including the areas
around the Al-Ru'oud Bridge that has been the scene of major clashes between
army forces and the 'Tribal Revolutionaries'.
Today, everybody is
awaiting tomorrow's balloting that just might alter the political map of Iraq and that
of Anbar in particular.
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