Iraq`s manual recount brings little change to election results
(LA Times Religion)

Three months after Iraq´s parliamentary elections, the long-awaited results of a recount are in, and the faction allied with Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr, a once implacable U.S. foe turned nationalist leader, is still in the lead. Sadr´s bloc, known as Sairoon, which means `marching to reform,`...