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...series of suicide bombings hit the Iraqi city of Baqubah, northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 31 people and wounding dozens more. The blasts, which came just days ahead of the country's March 7 parliamentary elections, are the latest in a string of attacks by extremists with links to al-Qaeda aimed at destabilizing the country and disrupting elections. In anticipation of further election-related violence, Iraqi officials are planning an increase in security measures across the country, including curfews, vehicle bans and heightened police surveillance...
...Iraq has another chance. The surge of American military forces in 2007 bought time for Iraq's leaders to work out their problems. The U.S. is betting that they can. The Status of Forces Agreement worked out between the Bush Administration and the Iraqi government holds that the U.S. must withdraw all combat troops from Iraq by the end of August and the remaining 50,000 support troops by the end of 2011. The Obama Administration has stuck to the timetable. With one eye on a developing political maturity in Iraq, Vice President Joe Biden has predicted that Iraq could...
...more centralized in the hands of the government in Baghdad or dispersed to its provinces and regions. The centralizers include al-Maliki's Shi'ite-dominated State of Law coalition, which is running on its record of providing security and disarming Iraq's militias. The more Sunni and secular Iraqi National Movement, led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, is likewise in favor of a strong central government. The push for decentralization is represented by the ruling parties of the Kurdistan Regional Government and an alliance of Shi'ite parties - led by Ammar al-Hakim and chastened warlord Muqtada...
...TIME video on the Iraqi elections...
...idea came to Sadri in 2008, when he was studying Arabic in Damascus. He and his housemates - a group of Iraqi refugees - were watching Barack Obama, then a presidential candidate, debate his opponent John McCain on the war in Iraq. "It just seemed bizarre that this supposedly big democratic moment in the United States was missing such a vital component - the voice of the Iraqi people themselves," says Sadri. "National democracy is all very well if you're a strong country like the U.S. or the U.K. But if you live in a relatively weak state, you can have...