POLLING officials counted votes by candlelight last night as Iraq tallied its dead after an election which divided the country.

Insurgents are preparing attacks with suicide cyclists and loading bombs on to donkey carts in a bid to thwart measures which will keep cars off the streets during Iraq’s elections, military sources said today.

From palace ashtrays and pillows to jeeps and a grand piano, the spoils of war are disappearing fast in Iraq.

CAPTURED Iraqi soldiers have told British interrogators that al-Qaida terrorists are fighting on the side of Saddam Hussein’s forces against Allied troops near Basra.

Captured Iraqi soldiers have told British interrogators that al-Qaida terrorists are fighting on the side of Saddam Hussein’s forces against allied troops near Basra.