Shiites Leading in Hussein's Home Province

By JOHN F. BURNS and JAMES GLANZ

Published: February 8, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 7 - The first election returns from the Sunni majority heartland north of Baghdad showed Monday that a low Sunni turnout in Saddam Hussein's home province has given a lead in the voting there to a Shiite political alliance led by the southern clerics who were among Mr. Hussein's most bitter enemies.