Bombings break election-law deadlock

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Source: NYT

Bombings break election-law deadlock
Officials jolted into reaching tentative accord; death toll climbs to 156
Tuesday, October 27, 2009


BAGHDAD -- Iraqi officials reached a tentative agreement on a new election law yesterday, even as workers continued to recover more bodies from the wreckage of Sunday's bomb attacks, including an uncertain number of children from two day care centers.

The toll climbed to as many as 155 dead, with more than 500 wounded and an unknown number still missing.

The violence appeared to have jolted members of parliament into action: Calling the bombings an attack on Iraq's national unity government, Iraqi leaders swiftly responded with a compromise agreement on a new election law that had eluded them for weeks and threatened to delay national elections scheduled for January. Details of the agreement were not released.

The Iraqi Defense and Interior ministries began investigating security breaches that allowed the bombings to occur, Defense Minister Abdul-Kader Jassem al-Obeidi said in a statement.



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