AP: Iraq's Shiites Win

[ProSense]

Iraq's Shiites Win, but Must Share Power
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer
12 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An alliance of Shiite religious parties won the most seats in Iraq's new parliament but not enough to rule without coalition partners, the election commission said Friday. Sunni Arabs gained seats over previous balloting.

A top Sunni politician, meanwhile, appealed for the release of American journalist Jill Carroll and urged U.S. and Iraqi forces to stop arresting Iraqi women, as a deadline set by kidnappers was set to expire.

The Shiite United Iraqi Alliance captured 128 of the 275 seats in the Dec. 15 election, down from the 146 it won in January 2005 balloting, said commission official Safwat Rasheed.

It needed 138 seats to form a government on its own.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060120/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_060120182603

[kenny blankenship]

1. And the victory celebration is in the Tehran Hilton

no wonder the Iranians are feeling their oats. We're doing all their work for them.

[Doctor_J]

2. Mission accomplished

we brought American-style democracy to Iraq - we have a fundamentalist minority running the US, they have one running Iraq.