BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Tough security and an informal rebel truce stifled all but sporadic violence in Iraq on Wednesday, the day before an election U.S. President George W. Bush said was drawing in Sunni Arabs and isolating insurgents.
The general calm was punctuated only by a few attacks concentrated in northern Iraq and by protests by religious Shi'ites against a perceived insult to their spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, on Al Jazeera television.
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