BAGHDAD, Dec. 19 -- The first results from Iraq's national parliamentary election showed powerful support for the leading Shiite Muslim religious alliance, and suggested that the country's splintered politics have coalesced into a few large political groups divided along ethnic and religious lines. -
Shiite Alliance Leads In Partial Iraq Count
BAGHDAD, Dec. 19 -- The first results from Iraq's national parliamentary election showed powerful support for the leading Shiite Muslim religious alliance, and suggested that the country's splintered politics have coalesced into a few large political groups divided along ethnic and religious lines.-
By Doug Struck