VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH

VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH

Volume 65, February 8, 2009
St. Louis, Missouri

Editors: Mohamed & Rashida Ziauddin

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful

SPOTLIGHT ON IRAQ:

"A PICTURE SPEAKS A THOUSAND WORDS"

An Iraqi police woman casts her vote in the provincial elections in the Shiite Muslim city of Najaf, 160 kms south of the capital Baghdad. Several hundred thousand Iraqis voted on Wednesday in the first stage of a landmark provincial election, the country's first ballot since 2005, with officials reporting a high turnout. (AFP/Qassem Zein)

Policewomen hold up Iraqi national flags as they march during a graduation ceremony at a police academy in Baghdad January 26, 2009. Some 500 female police officers finished the first batch of first inspector course at the Baghdad Police College on Monday. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ) PARADE

Iraqi policewomen celebrate their graduation from the police academy in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan, 26. 2009. 490 women graduated from Iraqi police academy to be ready for Iraq's provincial elections on Jan. 31, 2009. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Policewomen chant slogans as they raise up their rifles celebrating graduation at a police academy in Baghdad January 26, 2009. Some 500 female police officers finished the first batch of first inspector course at the Baghdad Police College on Monday. REUTERS/Saad Shalash

Salwa Majid holds her newborn son, Haidar Karrar, as she casts here vote from her hospital bed in country's provincial elections in Najaf, 160 kilometers south of Baghdad, Iraq, Jan 28, 2009. Full scale voting is scheduled for Saturday to pick regional councils across much of Iraq. But special ballot boxes were brought early to detention facilities, hospitals and police and military units needed for the sweeping anti-terrorism measures that include vehicle bans and double-ring cordons around polling sites. (AP photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

Salwa Majid, seen with her newborn son, Haidar Karrar, holds up her ink-stained finger after she cast her vote from her hospital bed in the country's provincial elections in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009. Full-scale voting is scheduled for Saturday to pick regional councils across much of Iraq. (AP Photo/Alaa al)

A member of the Iraqi security forces uses a scanner to check policewomen standing in line to vote in a polling station in Kerbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad January 28, 2009 . Soldiers, police, prisoners and displaced people began early voting on Wednesday ahead of Saturday's provincial election in Iraq, which will determine the political landscape across the country as U.S. forces withdraw. (Mushtaq Muhammed/Reuters

A blindfolded policewoman demonstrates her skills on weapons handling during a graduation ceremony at a police academy in Baghdad January 26, 2009. Some 500 female police officers finished the first batch of first inspector course at the Baghdad Police College on Monday. REUTERS/Saad Shalash

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