File this one under: Mixed political messages

From the same people that brought you the Provisional Authority and subsequent government based out of Saddam's palaces comes the first voters: detainees.

About 18,000 detainees could vote, AFP story:

Inmates were authorised to exercise their democratic right at 17 sites, including the notorious US-run Abu Ghraib prison that holds 4,600 Iraqis and Camp Bucca with a capacity of 6,500.