American soldiers find willing nation ready to match their sacrifices of blood to ensure Iraq's freedom with their own fortitude of believe in freedom a nation collectively ready to pay equal US sacrifice with their blood... if freedom needs sweat, blood and tears, Iraqi's show their courage and love for free determination, that was a major claim against present policy that Bush is trying to impose 'freedom' on an unwilling nation!
NAJAF, Iraq Salim Yacoubi bent over to kiss the purple ink stain on his twin brother's right index finger, gone cold with death.
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"You can see the finger with which he voted," Shukur Jasim, a friend of the dead man, said as he cast his tearful gaze on the corpse, sprawled across a body washer's concrete slab. "He's a martyr now."
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The stain marked the day the man, Naim Rahim Yacoubi, 37, exercised his right to a free vote, and the day he paid for that hard-won privilege with his life.
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Yacoubi was one of at least 50 Iraqis who died in bomb and mortar attacks on Sunday as millions of people marched to polling centers in the country's first free elections in decades.
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A suicide bomber detonated outside Kurdis Primary School in western Baghdad, sending dozens of shards of shrapnel into Yacoubi.
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The victims of election day violence are being hailed by family and friends as the latest shahid, or martyrs, in a nearly two-year insurgency that has claimed the lives of thousands.
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