The Break #2 For 3/26/10: Iyad Allawi's Bloc Has Defeated Nouri Al-Maliki's Alliance In Iran Based On Polls

This is huge news, as Iraq seems to embark on massive change in their government with a potential new secular leader.
From Al Jazeera:

The secularist Iraqiya coalition led by Iyad Allawi, the former premier, won the most seats in Iraq's March 7 parliamentary election, two more than incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's bloc.

Iraqiya won 91 seats in the 325-member Council of Representatives, while Maliki's State of Law Alliance won 89 seats, the independent electoral commission said on Friday.

The Iraqi National Alliance, a coalition of mostly Shia religious groups, came third with 70 seats. Kurdistania, comprised of the autonomous Kurdish region's two long-dominant blocs - the Kurdish Democratic Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, won 43 seats.

As Richard Engel just said, Allawi is the man that the US really hoped was the victor here. Now Al-Maliki will protest the results. stating that they "aren't final".

This story will certainly get bigger and bigger as time progresses, though it is already massive now.