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From: LindyBill	1/29/2005 11:16:08 PM
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The Polls opened sixteen minutes ago. Suicide bombers will reach polling stations in Iraq's election-day battle, admits general By Toby Harnden in Baghdad Telegraph UK telegraph.co.uk General John Abizaid, America's senior military commander in the Middle East, has admitted that suicide bombers are likely to penetrate polling stations during today's Iraqi elections, despite unprecedented security measures. Even as President George W Bush predicted that "the courage of the Iraqi people will allow the vote to take place", his top officer for the region warned: "Undoubtedly, insurgents are going to attack polling sites with suicide belts wrapped around them." An Iraqi insurgent Gen Abizaid told an American newspaper that the election-day battle 'will be tough and bloody' Gen Abizaid told an American newspaper that in the four Iraqi provinces dominated by Sunni Muslims, where the insurgency is strongest, the election-day battle "will be tough and it will be difficult and it will be bloody.

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