ABC News: Iraqis Around the Globe Head to Ballot Box

ABC News: Iraqis Around the Globe Head to Ballot Box

"Iraqis Around the Globe Head to Ballot BoxAmid Tight Security, Iraqis Around the World Bring Their Hopes and Fears to the Ballot Box
An Iraqi woman election official, finds the name of female voters, duing their country's elections at a polling station in the Iranian city of Qom 80 miles (130 kilometers) southwest of the Iranian capital Tehran, Friday, Jan. 28, 2005. Iraqi expatriates are permitted to cast ballots in 14 countries across the world, but the voting in Iran holds special significance.
LONDON Jan 28, 2005
In the nations bordering their homeland, in a furniture warehouse in Australia and in an events center in London, Iraqis on Friday began voting for an interim government that they hope will bring peace and order.
'Iraqis are finally expressing themselves.
It is a victory for all the dead that Saddam Hussein killed,' said Falastin Saheb, 25, an Iraqi who has been living in Syria for two years and is running a polling center there, in Rukn el-Din, a Kurdish neighborhood.
Banners outside the center read: 'Let us hear your voice.'
Security was tight at polling stations in 14 countries that are open through Sunday, when people inside Iraq have their chance to vote."