odd juxtaposition of 2 headlines

Baghdad Eerily Quiet on Eve of Elections

Streets in Baghdad were eerily quiet on the eve of Thursday's parliamentary election, with police strictly enforcing a traffic ban. Only an occasional police siren, a sporadic gunshot, a U.S. helicopter or shouts from boys playing soccer could be heard. Borders and airports also have been closed, and the nighttime curfew has been extended.

In scattered violence, gunmen shot up four polling stations near Fallujah, but no one was hurt, police said. Two police officers were killed and four others were wounded by a roadside bomb that exploded next to an Interior Ministry patrol in northern Mosul, according to officials at Jumhouri hospital.

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Shiite Protesters Burn Allawi's Offices

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Angry Shiites marched Wednesday and set fire to the offices of a secular politician after a Sunni Arab guest criticized Iraq's Shiite religious leaders during an Al-Jazeera talk show.

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These 2 headlines were in consecutive order at Yahoo News! A strange definition of quiet!
Even the article talking about the "quiet" had quite a bit of violence in it!