Iraqi newspapers, which resumed issues after four-day suspension, dedicated most pages on Wednesday to the success of last Sunday's historic elections.

"The Iraqis inside and outside the country proved keenness for the future of their country and this made them put aside all the threats and head for the voting centers to choose the unified and stable Iraq," said the editorial of Al Furat newspaper.

"The victory of the first round," was the title of editorial in Al Sabah newspaper, which said that Iraq came out victorious while those who are afraid of democracy lost.

"Iraq overcame the fear barrier that certain sides tried to establish between the citizens and the election centers with a pile of threats of explosions and bombings," said the editorial.

"This is the victory of the first round that should continue to the promised aim of a democratic constitutional Iraq," concluded the newspaper.

Baghdad newspaper, which is the mouthpiece of the National Accord Movement led by the Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, said "the electoral process ended up with success, and it was a bigger success for Iraq because the history recorded the first time in modern Iraqi life to depend on the free will as a basis for judgment and means for power."

The Iraqi newspapers stopped issuing for the past four days because of the curfew and the severe security precautions that the interim Iraqi government imposed in a bid to prevent insurgents from making good on their threat to turn the poll into a bloodbath.

Millions of Iraqis cast their ballots to elect a 275-seat national assembly which will choose a transitional government and draft a permanent constitution to be endorsed in a national referendum by Oct. 15.

A new government and parliament will then be elected by the end of this year under the guidance of the constitution.