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those explosions,it occurredto me—the insurgents are weak,they areafraid of democracy,they are losing,\"shetold The New York Times.\"So I got myhusband,and I got my parents,and we allcame out and voted togethet.\"  \nMusawi and her family were amongthe millions of Iraqis who cast ballots forthe nation's new 275-member NationalAssembly.Election officials estimate that8 million Iraqis—about 57 percent of the  \n14.2 million eligible voters—took part inthe country's first multiparty election inmore than 50 years.  \nThe National Assembly will elect apresident and two deputies,who in turnwill select a prime minister.The assemblywill create a constitution and decide whatrole Islam will play in the government.  \nAbout 97 percent of Iraq's populationpractices Islam.The country's Muslimsare divided into two groups:Sunnis andShiites.Shiites make up the majority ofIraq's population,but Sunnis controlledthe country under Saddam Hussein.  \nWhen CE went to press,the United  \nfor Saddam.  \nUnder dictator Saddam  \nHussein,there was only  \none safe vote for Iraqis  \non election day—a vote  \nSaddam ruled Iraq  \nwith an iron fist for 24  \nyears.The violence and  \nintimidation started on  \nthe day he took office,  \nJuly 16,1979.He executed 21 high govemmentofficials whom he suspected of treason.He thenstacked the government with his family membersand created a secret police to ensure his power.  \nIraqi citizens who spoke out against Saddamfaced torture.Many were severely beaten,givenelectric shocks,or had their eyes gouged out or theirears chopped off.Some who'd had their tongues cutout were displayed as a waming to others.Saddameven had about 40 of his own relatives murdered.  \nSaddam encouraged his citizens to turm in people court is expected to hear his case in 2006.  \nIraqi Alliance,Shiite religious partiesbacked by Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric,Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani,wasexpected to win about 140 seats.EthnicKurds were expected to take about 55seats.The ticket of interim Prime MinisterAyad Allawi,a scular Shite,was expect-ed to win about 40 seats.Smaller partieswere expected to take the rest of the seats.  \n# Rocking the Vote\n\nMany Iraqis risked their lives to maketheir voices heard.Days before the vote,  \nthey suspected of treason.\"If they took a person tojail,the informer got 25,000 dinars [about $10],\"Rassin al Issa,who was arrested n 1999,toldNewsweek.In jail,Issa was tortured daily.Prisonguards spilled battery acid on his feet and hung himby his wrists from the ceiling.  \nShiite Muslims,who make up the majority ofIraq's population,faced severe religious restrictionsunder Saddam,a Sunni Muslim.Saddam bannedShites'communal Friday prayer and restricted theirfuneral processions.  \nSaddam was particularly cruel to the Kurds,a minority group in northem Iraq.He launched anethnic cleansing campaign against them in 1988,destroying hundreds of Kurdish villages and kiling182,000 Kurds.Saddam attacked the Kurdish townof Halabja with bombs containing mustard gas andnerve gas,kiling about 5,000 Kurds in 24 hours.  \nMany Iraqis feared Saddam so strongly that evenafter U.S.troops took control of Baghdad on April 9,2003,some worried that Saddam would punishthem for celebrating the U.S.victory.It wasn't untilafter his capture in December 2003 that many Iraqisfelt secure.  \nToday.Saddam s awaiting trial.A special Iraqi  \ninsurgents threatened to“wash the streets”with voters'blood.In Mashtal,an ethni-cally mixed neighborhood in Baghdad,young men tossed sinister leaflets out of acar's windows before the election.\"Tothose of you who think you can vote andthen run away,we will shadow you andcatch you,and we will cut off your headsand the heads of your children,\"theleaflets warned.  \nInsurgents carried out nine suicidebombings in Baghdad and attacks else-where in the country that killed at least 50people on election day.But the violence  \nHoly cow.is this placeold!Buitaround 4000BC.in what is nowIraq,this was one ofthe 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