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Washington Post:
Polls Close in Iraq  —  Large Numbers Turn Out Despite Sporadic Violence  —  BAGHDAD, Oct. 15 — Large numbers of Iraqi voters ignored sporadic outbreaks of violence and voted Saturday in a constitutional referendum that would increase the role of Islam in the government and formalize Iraq's democracy.
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New York Times:
Iraqis Cast Votes on Constitution; Turnout Is Mixed  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 15 - Iraqis streamed to the polls Saturday, casting ballots on a new constitution that would fundamentally alter the shape and nature of the nation.  —  With most vehicular traffic banned, and more than 150,000 American …
New York Times:
Polls Close in Iraq's Constitutional Referendum  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 15 - Iraqis walked through silent streets this morning to begin voting on a new constitution that, if passed, would mark a major step toward the formation of the country's first full-term government since the toppling of Saddam Hussein.
Discussion: normblog
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The Constitution Referendum, and the Not-So-Great Ramadan Offensive  —  The Iraqis have voted on the referendum.  Turnout is reported to be high in many areas of Iraq.  Saddam's own hometown in Tikrit is estimated to have had a 78% turnout.  Dr. Fareed Ayar, a member of the Independent Electoral Commission …
CNN:
Polls close in historic Iraq referendum  —  Workers start counting ballots; few reports of violence  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — After decades of repression and more than two years of war and insurgency, Iraqis streamed to the polls Saturday to vote on a draft constitution that would set …
Washington Post:
Iraq's Referendum  —  TODAY, IRAQ stages a referendum …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Reuters:
Iraqis vote on new constitution; few attacks
Discussion: Roger L. Simon
Roger L. Simon / Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter:   Iraqi Freedom - How Short It Has Been - A Revolutionary Comparison
Washington Post:
Sunni Bombs and Guards Greet Iraq Vote
Discussion: Decision '08
New York Times:
The Miller Case: From a Name on a Pad to Jail, and Back  —  In a notebook belonging to Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times, amid notations about Iraq and nuclear weapons, appear two small words: "Valerie Flame."  —  Ms. Miller should have written Valerie Plame.
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Judith Miller / New York Times:
My Four Hours Testifying in the Federal Grand Jury Room  —  In July 2003, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador, created a firestorm by publishing an essay in The New York Times that accused the Bush administration of using faulty intelligence to justify the war in Iraq.
Discussion: Power Line and Sisyphus Shrugged
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A Day of Questioning, More Questioning and . . . No Questions  —  Almost three hours after Karl Rove entered the grand jury chambers yesterday morning, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald walked hurriedly from the room and toward the waiting reporters.  —  "Just going to the men's room," he announced, continuing past the media pack.
Discussion: firedoglake and NewsBusters.org
Sooni:
Voting photos from Baghdad … At 4:08 PM, DagneyT said...  At 4:14 PM, doug said...  At 4:24 PM, Anthony said...  At 4:24 PM, Flatlander said...  At 4:29 PM, StanB713 said...  At 4:31 PM, erp said...  At 4:40 PM, Chevy Rose said...  At 4:50 PM, Anonymous said...  At 5:00 PM, dcat said...
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Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Just said my YES...  (updated)  —  Probably the worst thing today is the intense heat which was a little over 100f but that didn't stop the crowds from walking in the sun to the voting stations, I personally had to walk nearly 4 miles in total but it's definitely worth the effort.
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Criminalizing Conservatives  —  Fall of 2005 will be remembered as a time when it became clear that a strategy of criminalization had been implemented to inflict defeat on conservatives.  —  THE MOST EFFECTIVE CONSERVATIVE LEGISLATOR of—oh—the last century or so, Congressman Tom DeLay …
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The White House, the CIA, and the Wilsons
Discussion: The Left Coaster and Power Line
Times of London:
America offers 'Gaddafi deal' to bring Syria in from the cold  —  THE Bush Administration has offered Syria's beleaguered President a "Gaddafi deal" to end his regime's isolation if Damascus agrees to a long list of painful concessions.  —  According to senior American and Arab officials …
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hughhewitt.com:
Iraq Votes, Yon Notes, RedStaters Emote, and I Confess Everything I Don't Know About the Miers Nomination.  —  Back to Biola and GodBlogCon I, and then ND-USC, so light Saturday blogging.  Brant DeBow has done a great job of summarizing the panel discussion from last evening.
BBC:
US troops 'starve Iraqi citizens'  —  A senior United Nations official has accused US-led coalition troops of depriving Iraqi civilians of food and water in breach of humanitarian law.  —  Human rights investigator Jean Ziegler said they had driven people out of insurgent strongholds that were about to be attacked by cutting supplies.
John Solomon / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
DeLay campaign slams Texas prosecutor  —  WASHINGTON — Tom DeLay is using his congressional campaign to distribute to voters derogatory information about the Texas prosecutor who has indicted him - and to raise more money for a re-election bid that has been affected by the criminal case.
Discussion: Seeing the Forest and firedoglake
Charles Johnson / Opinion Journal:
Shall We Overcome?  —  The black American condition today.  —  As Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton prepare for yet another symbolic and substanceless "Million Man March" in Washington, all three have managed to dodge the joke about the first such rally a decade ago …
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Oliver Willis:
Million March Revolt
Discussion: Say Anything and Ace of Spades HQ

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