 | Adil al-Lami (R), one of seven commissioners of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI), and his colleague Safouat Majid attend a news conference announcing the results for 13 of Iraq's 18 provinces in a constitutional referendum in Baghdad, October 22, 2005. click to open  |
 | An Iraqi National Guard officer keeps watch on ballot boxes in Baghdad, October 16, 2005. The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq said on Saturday it had found no instances of serious fraud in an October 15 constitutional referendum and was still verifying some results only because of statistical issues. click to open |
 | Kurdish referendum officials help a patient to cast her vote at Rizgari hospital in Irbil, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 14. 2005. In hospitals and prisons voting started Thursday, two days ahead of the official referendum date. Kurdish leadership has asked Kurds to accept the draft of the new Iraqi constitution. click to open |
 | Kurdistan Democratic Party leader, Massoud Barzani speaks to reporters during a press conference in Salahedin, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 14. 2005. The Kurdish leadership has asked Kurds to accept the draft of the new Iraqi constitution. click to open |
 | A U.S gunship flies by the Um Al-Qura Sunni mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 14, 2005. Sunni insurgents launched five attacks against the largest Sunni Arab political party on the eve of Iraq's crucial referendum Friday, bombing and burning offices and the home of one of its leaders in retaliation after the group dropped its opposition to the draft constitution. click to open |
 | U.S. army soldiers walk behind a razor wire fence as Iraqi soldiers (rear) stand guard at a polling station in Baquba, Iraq, October 14, 2005. A security clampdown emptied city streets and highways across Iraq on Friday on the eve of a constitutional referendum that militants have vowed to disrupt. click to open |
 | An Iraqi man looks at lists of voting centres for the Saturday constitutional referendum in the Kurdish city of Arbil, in northern Iraq October 14, 2005. click to open |
 | An Iraqi electoral workers puts his hand on a box with ballots as they are delivered in Baquba, Iraq October 14, 2005. click to open |
 | Constitution commission chairman Humam Hammudi pauses as he speaks to the press, in Baghdad on August 1st 2005. Parliament will debate a draft constitution for Iraq on August 15, keeping the country on track for a scheduled mid-October referendum on the post-Saddam Hussein charter, Hammudi said. click to open |
 | U.S. Specialist Kevin Hill of the third battalion of the seventh infantry division patrols a street in Baghdad, Iraq, August 1, 2005. The head of the panel drawing up Iraq's new constitution announced on Monday that a draft would be ready by a mid-August deadline, as U.S. officials had hoped, easing fears divisions could set back the political process. click to open |
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