** FILE ** A woman looks at a poster bearing the smiling picture of former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and reading "Vote Iraqia" referring to Allawi's electoral list for Dec. 15 parliamentary elections, during a campaign rally in Najaf, Iraq, in this Nov. 18, 2005 file photo. About a dozen people, some of them carrying clubs, tried to prevent former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi from entering a shrine Sunday in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, and his bodyguards fired shots in the air to disperse the crowd, police said. (AP Photo/Alaa al Marjani)