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CO m/t h 6 fl fl Q BWOJf OBJW/'RCOEWtOI mSOPafiOFiMKRUC Islamic Center me Come visit your local mosque and learn more about Islam Get to know your Muslim neighbors Enjoy international food Saturday, October 19,2002 9:00AM - 4:00PM f or more details, please visit www.icbcs.org Wednesday, October 16, 2002 NM THE BATTaliJ Sport vote almost unanimouslt for Hussein on yes/no ballots Iraqis TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) — Stuffing ballots into boxes by the fistful, citizens in Saddam Hussein s hometown of massive compounds and narrow lanes joined millions ot other Iraqis on Tuesday for a vote choreographed as a show of support lor their leader. “All Iraq is for Saddam. He is our leader and our father,” said one voter, showing ott a ballot stamped “yes” in a thumbprint of blood. Surface-to-air missile batteries and artillery outside Saddam’s hometown, Tikrit, underscored the other message in Iraq’s one- candidate presidential referendum: defiance of the United States in the face of possible war over Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruc tion. “I came to put my paper in the box and to say I don’t want America to come here, and to say I hate Bush, because he wants to attack me,” Dr. Ahmed Jawad, a parasitologist, said in a village outside Tikrit. Iraq projected more than 11 mil lion of Saddam’s 22 million people would turn out for the referendum. The vote was a “yes” or “no” on Saddam’s staying president for Volume 10$ Fre: By Sara THE BA' gathered and waiting for the press, not for vote. At one desert polling site, robed Bed tribesmen broke into ballot-waving dances songs lauding Saddam when journalists rolle in a bus. Descending on the polling place from i around in white Japanese pickup trucks instead camels, the Bedouin told reponers they fiadfc well-fed by authorities as they waited for the cam eras ' , . I Aprocedura In some towns, exc,w, k I ^ lif , ca , non workers joined ..te.r j freshn cramming ballots into boxesih 1 news cameras. Many singlev«. ers cast multiple ballots, f« absent family members. In Tikrit, one stooped Bedt* woman shrouded head to toe m black cloth pushed her k through dancing throngs of Saddam supporters. A vote organizer stopped the woma, unfolded her ballot to make suit she had checked the “yes" box nodded and handed the back to her. Pushing her vote forf Obviouslyy it's not a very serious day, not a very serious vote and nobody places any credibility on it. jpresident and h [instatement of runners up. Ben Steed, \ jvice president,; [elected historiai turn their can reports in to th — Ari Fleischer White House press secretary iCE( another seven years and on continuing the coup- installed, three-decade reign of his party. The White House dismissed the one-man race. “Obviously, it’s not a very serious day, not a very serious vote and nobody places any credibility on it,” press secretary Ari Fleischer said in Washington. At home, Iraqis have spoken of besting Saddam's 99.96 percent “yes” vote the last refer endum, in 1995. In the capital, Baghdad, Saddam’s Baath Party staged neighborhood drives to get out the vote — with many projecting a 100 percent “yes” this time. Officials said results would be announced at a news conference Wednesday morning. In a vote run with little show of impartiality or doubt about the outcome, however, it was impossible to tell if announced turnout or results would have any rela tion to votes cast. Iraq limited reporters to state-escorted stops at polling places. There were no independent observers. The true turnout seemed likely lower than the official projection. Some in Baghdad said private ly they had no plans to vote. Outside Baghdad, crowds at polling places vis ited by foreign reporters appeared to have been into the ribboned ballot box, the old womanreffii her head and lei loose a (nbal \ollev of celebraiq ry trilling: “LU LU LU LU LU LULLUH!" Tikrit, 95 miles north of Baghdad, isastror hold for Saddam, who comes from what wffij poor, settled Bedouin in the region. Saddam's actual birth village of A1 Aouja,of- side Tikrit, is off-limits to foreigners and m\ Iraqis these days. Election authorities’ press bus skirted onlyord edge ol the town Defense measures wereevte in that small part, such as a sandbag gunnefsw| at one intersection, before a mosque. Radar arrays, bunkers and missile batteries their mock-ups, held the flats outside Tikrit. U.S. missiles and bombs hit Saddam's t( twice, in 1991. and in 199N. following thewi] drawal of U.N. weapons inspectors. A week after Congress authorized t force to wipe out Saddam’s weapons of nwsj destruction, Tikrit physician Mohsin Zangarij said he was “90 percent sure" U.S. airstnii| would hit again. “I am voting not for Saddam, because myjftj for Saddam was determined long ago, but voting against America and Britain,” voter/ Munaim said in Baghdad. pre By 1 THE ontelongo's Presents the GIA Laser Inseribed The key to t iding a super! ie customer, id president :etail and Con ig a Campus tenure for a day Magee ga' 'ednesday as arious undi lasses as pat ^Residence Pro etailing Studi David M. enter for Reta ary objective itudents a broa in guest lecture experience. “It is great tere at Texas A usiness stratej Dies” he said. 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