In pictures: Iraq election
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Iraqis streamed into polling stations across the country to elect the first full-term parliament since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. -
Security was tight with searches at polling stations. Land borders and airports were closed ahead of the vote. -
Iraqis had to walk to polling stations because of a blanket ban on private vehicles amid fears of car bombings. -
Some 150,000 Iraqi soldiers and police officers were on patrol amid the heightened security. -
Every voter had to dip a finger in ink in a bid to guard against multiple voting. -
Radical cleric Moqtada Sadr has set aside bitter rivalry with other Shia leaders and joined the mainstream Shia religious list, the United Iraqi Alliance. -
Turnout was reportedly high in the Sunni-dominated province of Anbar, where the electorate mostly boycotted the transitional parliament vote in January. -
Most polling stations opened in the restive northern city of Mosul, despite an attack on one that killed a guard. -
Some 15m Iraqis were entitled to vote in the election for a new 275-member assembly. -
Women will account for a quarter of those elected to the new parliament. -
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, the country's first Kurdish head of state, was among the first to cast his ballot. -
wah..iraq gt election sia.