Iraqi Streets شوارع عراقية

Sunday’s election for a new National Assembly has been a bloody start. At least 24 people have died in various attacks.

Several rockets, grenades and bombs hit Baghdad as early as the morning hours on election day. The death toll is rising steadily, at least 24 people have died on Sunday morning.

- We are in a war situation. We operate in a battlefield and the warriors of our fear the worst, “said the security spokesman in Baghdad, Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, according to Reuters.
Most attacks were directed against Baghdad, but there have been reports of violence elsewhere in the country. At least four people were killed and eight were wounded in an explosion in a residential area in the capital, and one was killed in an explosion in another building nearby.
Twelve people were killed and eight were wounded in an explosion in a building somewhere else. The 200,000 security guards who are stationed only in the capital have failed to halt the attacks.
Also in Falluja, Baquba and Samarra’s people have been killed in various attacks Sunday. In the village of Baiji, 180 km north of Baghdad, was at least three people were wounded when shells struck at a polling station, . Despite the bloody start of the election, is not all deterred from voting.
- If we have to crawl to get to the polls, so we crabs, “said Ali Abdul Wahab, according to the Los Angeles Times. – We are Iraqis. We are not afraid, turn Abdul Azak fixed to the New York Times.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said the attackers too much noise to impress,Also Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr urged his countrymen to use the voting rights. – Even if a choice in the shadow of an occupation is not legitimate, I urge Iraqis to participate in order to prepare the ground for a termination of the occupation, said al-Sadr at a news conference in Tehran.
Nearly 19 million Iraqis have the right to vote in the election of new parliament,
Around 6,200 candidates and a wealth of political parties and election alliances competing for the 325 seats and many fear that the election will have the sectarian violence in the country to flare up again.
Al-Qaida has threatened to sabotage the election, but has no support. A large part of the Sunni Arab minority, which boycotts previous elections, expected this time to participate, even though hundreds of Sunni candidates refused to stand for election as a result of ties to Saddam Hussein’s old regime.

Election campaign has been marked by violence, and Saturday was four people were killed and over 50 wounded by a car bomb in Najaf.
Rumors of manipulating of elections especially in outside Iraq elections,There are 30,000 Iraqis in Denmark, which has since Friday been able to vote for the election of the new National Assembly in their home country.
, several irregularities and shows that several were voting for just having shown up copies of identification papers, .

The commander of the winding up of the Iraqi elections in Denmark, Hara Nihad, denies that it may be invalid ballots in the ballot box.
The morning attacks and bombs in Baghdad targeted areas known of there loyalty to list that will stand against major governmental lists ,many reports of people afraid to go because of the bombs and rumors of fraud
The future of Iraqi is on the rocks for the next few hours