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Iraq elections, 2005, a photo gallery - This photo gallery was begun on December 19, 2004
Electoral workers press on despite the threats and risks. An Iraqi electoral worker registers the number allocated to political parties taking part in the elections next year. Canada will lead a team of electoral experts to assess conditions for Iraq's crucial elections, but the missions make-up and mandate remained unclear. December 21, 2004. Photo credit: Tauseef Mustafa, AFP
UN representative Ashraf Jehangir Qazi (L) and Abed Hussein al-Hindawi (C), head of Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission (IECI) look on as Adel al-Lami, the director of the IECI, shows off the number written on a ball drawn from a drum in Baghdad. The numbered balls were drawn from a drum to set the order of the parties to appear on the ballots in the upcoming National Assembly elections taking place on 30 January 2005. December 20, 2004. Photo credit: Tauseef Mustafa, AFP
The kind of threat Iraq's freedom-loving people face. A gunman, left, shoots and kills a man lying in Baghdad's Haifa Street after being pulled from a car Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004. The man at right on his knees was executed moments later, along with another man not shown in picture. About 30 militants hurling hand grenades and firing machine guns attacked a car carrying five people employed by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq's Baghdad office. Photo credit: AP Photo. Editor's comment: We have good photos of the killers, with lots of witnesses. Let's hope they are chased down and left in the weeds to the flies after they try to escape.
Members of the Iraqi communist party take part in their first electoral meeting in Baghdad on December 17, 2004. The meeting was held to launch a campaign by the communist party for Iraq 's landmark elections next month. Photo credit: Marwan Naamani, AFP. Editor's note: You see, even the Reds are happy there's going to be an election. I'm happy for them. Let's see what they're made of.
Your vote will liberate Iraq. An elderly Iraqi looks at an election banner that reads: "We are your sons and brothers and your thunderous vote will liberate Iraq ." Photo credit: Ali Al-Saadi, AFP
The heart of Iraq is elections. A woman and a child sit next to a pro-election banner in the southern Iraqi town of Basra Friday, Dec 17 2004. The banner reads: "The heart of Quran is the verses of Yasin, the heart of Iraq is elections." Photo credit: Nabil Al-Jurani, AP
Vote for the future of Iraq. An Iraqi walks past posters advertising for the upcoming landmark elections in Baghdad. The poster reads in Arabic: "Vote, for the future of Iraq Together, towards a new Iraq." Photo credit: Sabah Arar, AFP
Interim Prime Minister gets his campaign in motion. Iraqi workers plaster a poster of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's list, called the Iraqi List, which will run for the coming national election, prior to Allawi's press conference in Baghdad. Campaigning opened for Iraq 's landmark general elections to be held on January 30. Photo credit: Sabah Arar, AFP
The candidates are psyched! Some of the candidates for the Iraqi Province of Basra collect their information kits as they arrive to participate in an Electoral Seminary in Kuwait City Saturday, Dec.11, 2004. The symposium organized by Kuwait's Humanitarian Organizations Center (HOC) and the Danish Embassy in Iraq, aims at informing and educating the 96 candidates of different parties on the rules of the election process and the political program towards democracy. Photo credit: Gustavo Ferrari, AP. Editor's note: Bravo Denmark and Kuwait! Thank you. |
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