Allawi Trailing Shiite Ticket in Iraq (AP)

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AP - U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ayad Allawi was trailing a Shiite ticket with ties to Iran in Iraq's historic election, according to partial returns released Friday. Four U.S. soldiers were killed and nine wounded in the north, and gunmen seized an Italian journalist in Baghdad.

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