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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
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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
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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.
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a very serious day,
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places any
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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.
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