Iraq Kurds Vote for Regional Leaders.

by 158 | July 25, 2009 at 11:41 am

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Kurdistan is not perfect but

it is the least violent area of

Iraq.Many Kurds would like

to have a fully independent nation

but that is unlikely unless Iraq's

government falls apart. For now

Kurds mostly run their own region

and they are making good progress.

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Voters in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdistan region lined up hours before polling places opened to cast their ballots on Saturday in local presidential and parliamentary elections. Security was tight as Kurdish internal security forces guarded polling places and election workers frisked voters at the entrance, many of whom wore traditional Kurdish costumes "