Sunday, December 04, 2005

Inside the Iraqi Elections


The crack news team here at The Thinker will be breaking down the complex issues facing the Iraqi electorate as they will go to the polls in a few days to elect their constitutional assembly. The Shi'a majority, the Sunnis who support the government and those Sunnis who are resisting have vastly different objectives going into the election.

Our photographers visited each group in and around Baghdad and returned with these images:

The first is from a Shi'ite rally:
















While here we have a group of pro-government Sunnis:
















and finally, a Sunni opposition group:

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