Bombings come ahead of crucial parliamentary elections
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A young Iraqi girl, who accompanied her family to the polling station and asked for her finger to be inked even though she was too young to vote, shows her inked finger as she leaves the polling station in Karbala, Iraq, Sunday, March 7. Iraqis voted Sunday in an election testing the mettle of the country's still-fragile democracy as insurgents killed 25 people across the country, unleashing a barrage of mortars intent on disrupting the historic day.
The ink-stained finger of a policeman is seen as he stands guard outside a polling station in Sulaimaniya, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad. The election, Iraq's second for a full four-year parliament since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, marks another stage in the nation's efforts to find peace and prosperity after years of dictatorship, war, sanctions and sectarian strife.
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