2:20 p.m. Fouad Salim, the representative of the Assyrian Movement in a polling center, said that voters in Tel Esquf, a Christian town east of Mosul under the control of the Kurdish militia, were asked by Kurdish party (KDP) militia men to vote for them and there were intimidation for the displaced Christians who had to leave Mosul. 2:10 p.m. McClatchy reporters in Ur neighborhood in Baghdad said that Iraqi firemen and rescuers along with Iraqi police and army are still trying to rescue residents of an apartment building that collapsed this morning due to an explosion. Rescuers are hearing cries of help from a woman and trying to reach her. They removed the rubble and found an arm with a ring and before it a leg of a woman. =========
Iraqi President Statements
Iraqi President Jalal Talbani said after voting in Sulaimaniyah
“I don’t think that the elections will change the political map in Iraq, there might be simple changing but I believe the main powers that are ruling now are the ones that will rule in the future along with other powers that want to participate in ruling”
He called to a wide participation and said about being nominated as a president:
“President Barzani nominated me to be a president again and also the major powers in Iraq asked me to do so”
1:45 p.m.
Kirkuk
Three roadside bombs exploded in Kirkuk and around it causing no casualties. Also in Kirkuk police defused a parked car bomb and a rocket prepared to launch, said Brigadier General Abdul Qadir Sarhad.
A roadside bomb exploded in Julan neighborhood in Fallujah
- Iraqi army soldiers killed two gunmen while they were trying to plant a roadside bomb in a town near Jalawla in Diyala province. - Iraqi military said that 36 bombs exploded in Diyala today and four other mortars. - A mortar shell landed in Al Julan neighborhood in Fallujah.
1 p.m.
A roadside bomb exploded near a polling center in central Baquba injuring two children.
Electoral commission officials order a monitor of Iraq’s Unity Alliance, a political alliance competing in elections, to leave a polling center south of Basra for practicing propaganda for his party.
12:45 p.m.
Mosques in Mosul are calling upon citizens to participate in elections because of low participation because the bad security situation and threats. Iraqi army and police vehicles also used loudspeakers to ensure citizens that the security situation is under control. These calls upon citizens were in Arab neighborhoods.
Two citizens were injured when two mortar shells targeted Al Zahra polling center in central Mosul
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