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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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BAGHDAD | Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:10pm EDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who leads a cross-sectarian, secularist coalition, pulled ahead of Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday in early results from last week's national polls.

The results announced by Iraq's electoral commission, representing about 79 percent of the vote counted from Iraq's 18 provinces, showed that Allawi had a narrow lead of about 9,000 votes over Maliki's State of Law bloc, a mainly Shi'ite grouping. Results are still coming in and the picture may change before they are finalized, which may take several weeks.

(Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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