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Minggu, Maret 07, 2010
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Anthony Shadid and Joao Silva for the NYT in the Sunni stronghold of Falluja report that at 7 a.m. – when the polls opened in Anbar – they heard five explosions, possibly mortars, around the city, followed by a volleys of gunfire. Falluja was one of the strongholds of the Sunni insurgency in the years after 2003, and two days before the election the Islamic State of Iraq, a group linked to Al Qaeda, declared a 6 a.m. to 6 p.m curfew on election day “all over the country, especially the areas of the Sunnis.”
Steven Lee Myers, The New York Times’s bureau chief in Baghdad has filed Another explosion was heard in central Baghdad, just before 7.30 a.m. In Anbar security officials also uncovered a cache of weapons and ammunition they suspected was being stored for use on Election Day, the official said. This is what the insurgents promised to do. Mike Kamber, an NYT photographer in central Baghdad, reports that voters have begun turning up to polling stations. “The streets are empty and the polling station I am at is very sparsely-attended,” he said. Iraq’s president, Jalal Talabani, was shown on state television voting in Kirkuk, the disputed, oil-rich city north of Baghdad. Oddly, he voted a few moments before the polls officially opened. Only moments before the polls opened, there were four explosions in Baghdad, reverberating across the city. It was not immediately clear where they occurred or if there were casualties and damage. A western security official said that improvised bombs had been found – and defused – in 16 polling stations in Baghdad overnight. Artikel News Terkait:7:01 a.m. Iraq Explosions before polls open
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