Early Iraq vote results: Prime minister in tight contest with secular challenger

Friday, March 12, 2010

BAGHDAD -- First results from Iraq's parliamentary election showed the prime minister and his secular rival locked in an extremely tight contest Thursday amid fraud allegations by rival parties and a chaotic, unpredictable vote count.

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