BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Quiet fell across most of Iraq on the eve of its parliamentary election on Wednesday as a draconian security lockdown and an informal ceasefire by many Sunni Arab rebels stifled all but sporadic violence.
U.S. President George W. Bush hailed indications minority Sunnis were rallying to the political process and that rebels were abandoning hardline militant groups.
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