A TOP Iraqi election official yesterday said Iraqi law will allow Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi detainees who have not been brought to trial to vote in this weekend’s constitutional referendum.

Insurgents determined to wreck Iraq’s constitutional referendum killed nearly 45 people and wounded dozens in a series of attacks today, including a suicide car-bomb that ripped apart a crowded market in a town near the Syrian border, police said.

An election official today said Iraqi law will allow Saddam Hussein and thousands of other Iraqi detainees to vote in this weekend’s crucial constitutional referendum.