{"id":1109,"date":"2005-10-14T13:27:35","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T17:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2005-10-14T13:27:35","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T17:27:35","slug":"voters-said-to-hunt-for-polling-sites-in-west-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1109","title":{"rendered":"Voters said to hunt for polling sites in west Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ammar al-Alwani<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20051014\/wl_nm\/iraq_referendum_anbar_dc_1;_ylt=Ai7y.TkEYWOFtXkDvisMi29X6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl\">Fri Oct 14,11:08 AM ET<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) &#8211; Hours before a crucial referendum on a new constitution, voters in western Iraq, where many are expected to say &#8220;No,&#8221; were asking themselves a troubling question: where are the polling stations? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are no voting centers in cities like Haditha, Hit, Rawa, Qaim, Ana, Baghdadi and the villages around them,&#8221; Mahmoud Salman al-Ani, a human rights activist in Ramadi, said on Friday, listing locations across western Anbar province.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There aren&#8217;t actually any voting centers or even voting sheets in these cities &#8230; Nobody knows how and where to vote if they decide to,&#8221; he said of the predominantly Sunni Arab region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Headline to come:  Passage of new constitution a victory for Bush!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ammar al-Alwani Fri Oct 14,11:08 AM ET RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) &#8211; Hours before a crucial referendum on a new constitution, voters in western Iraq, where many are expected to say &#8220;No,&#8221; were asking themselves a troubling question: where are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1109\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-hT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}