Allawi predicts few will boycott elections
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's interim prime minister said yesterday that he's confident only a small number of people will boycott the Jan. 30 elections, despite anger among many Sunni Muslims over the Fallujah offensive and a deadly US-Iraqi raid on a Baghdad mosque.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi sought to calm anger on Friday over his description of states that opposed the U.S.-led war to oust Saddam Hussein as "spectators."
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LONDON/BAGHDAD  - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi  said Sunday national elections will go ahead as planned in  January, despite a countrywide surge in violence targeting U.S.  forces and Iraqi troops and police.
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Iraq's main Shiite Muslim alliance expects to win the biggest share in the country's National Assembly but not enough to push through a political agenda or claim the prime minister's job without support from other parties &#151; notably the Kurds.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said elections would go ahead as planned in January, despite continuing violence which Thursday killed 41 people including 34 children.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said  Wednesday that the country's elections would take place on  schedule on Jan. 30.
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Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Sunday that elections would go ahead as scheduled in January despite unrelenting violence and said trials of ousted leader Saddam Hussein and his lieutenants would likely begin in October.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi meets with members of the Independent Election Committee in Baghdad on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004. The committee presented the current state of preparation for elections (AP Photo/ Mohammed Messara, Pool).
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Visiting Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Sunday his government was going to stickto the January election timetable despite the unstable situation in the country
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Elections will go ahead in Iraq next January as planned, despite the violence ravaging the country, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Thursday.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi pledged  on Friday there would be no attack on Najaf's Imam Ali Mosque  and said an "olive branch" was still being offered to Moqtada  al-Sadr and his militia, based in the shrine.
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Iraq's elections will go ahead as scheduled in January even if some Iraqis are unable to vote due to the security situation in the country, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview published in the several western daily newspapers.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi will travel to Jordan on Tuesday to meet with Iraqis outside the country as part of attempts to get as many Iraqis as possible to participate in upcoming elections, diplomats and Iraqi officials said.
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BAGHDAD -- Prime Minister Ayad Allawi publicly acknowledged for the first time yesterday that parts of Iraq probably won't be safe enough for people to vote in the Jan. 30 elections, and he announced plans to boost the size of the country's army from 100,000 to 150,000 men by year's end.
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LONDON/BAGHDAD  - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi  said Sunday elections would be held as planned in January  despite a surge in violence across the country.
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Iraq's Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said yesterday that Sunni Arabs should be given a meaningful role in forming a new government, despite their large-scale boycott of Sunday's election.
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London, Sept. 20 (NNN): The ongoing violence notwithstanding, elections in the country will take place in January as scheduled, Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has said.