Washington Times - Iraqis Vote by the Millions .

Festive crowds mobbed polling stations yesterday for Iraq's third election this year, the most ambitious attempt yet to shift a Shi'ite-Sunni struggle from the streets to parliament.

Unintimidated by a series of morning explosions that shook the capital and a smattering of attacks elsewhere, record numbers of voters walked in the warm sun to cast ballots at heavily protected polling places.

Official results will not be known for as long as two weeks, but fragmentary polling by Reuters news agency and a local television station showed substantial support for moderate Shi'ite leader Iyad Allawi from both Sunnis and Shi'ites.