An Iraqi soldier checks the identity of a motorist near a U.S. soldier with a drawn pistol at a checkpoint near a polling centre in Baghdad's Sadr city, a day before Iraq's historical parliamentary elections December 14, 2005. The head of Iraq's border guards denied police reports on Wednesday that a tanker truck stuffed with thousands of forged ballot papers had been seized crossing into Iraq from Iran before Thursday's elections. REUTERS/Ali Jasim