Despite Attacks, Officials Insist Iraq Vote Will Go On

By Madeleine Brand

Published January 9, 2005 at 7:00 PM HST

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with NPR's Mike Shuster about elections in Iraq, which are set for the end of January. Both U.S. and Iraqi officials insist the elections will go forward as scheduled on the 30th, despite deadly insurgent attacks intended to intimidate voters from going to the polls.

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Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).