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Iraqi Spokesman for the Independent Electoral Commission Iraq Farid Ayar casts his ballot in Iraq's first free election at a polling station in the Baghdad Convention Center in Baghdad, Iraq, on Jan. 30, 2005. Millions of Iraqis throughout the country are participating in Iraq's first free election in over 50 years.

Iraqi Spokesman for the Independent Electoral Commission Iraq Farid Ayar casts his ballot.

Iraqi Spokesman for the Independent Electoral Commission Iraq Farid Ayar casts his ballot in Iraq's first free election at a polling station in the Baghdad Convention Center in Baghdad, Iraq, on Jan. 30, 2005. Millions of Iraqis throughout the country are participating in Iraq's first free election in over 50 years.

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