Calls for Iraq Poll Delay Fuel Tension
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Iraq&#39;s main Shi&#39;ite parties insisted on Saturday that elections should go ahead on Jan. 30 as planned, rejecting mounting calls from Sunni and secular politicians
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Iraq's parliament again delayed debate   of a divisive bill on federalism on Tuesday after a fresh wave   of violence killed 50 people and the United Nations warned that   Iraq could descend into civil war.
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Distracted by the election, hampered by fears and feuds, Iraqi officials say their former leader&#39;s day in court won&#39;t come until 2006.
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BAGHDAD, 26 November 2004 - Iraqâs Sunni Muslim political parties yesterday threatened to boycott the Jan. 30 election. âWe call for elections to be postponed for six months because the security situation
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Some of Iraq's most powerful political groups called for a six-month delay in elections, citing concerns over security.
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More than 15 leading Iraqi parties called on Friday to delay the scheduled January elections by atleast six months, the Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV reported.
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Senator John Kerry's presidential team accused the Bush administration of delaying major US offensives in Iraq until after November's election.
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DUKAN, Iraq -- Leading Sunni politicians and representatives of Iraq's prime minister and president called yesterday for Iraq's national election to be postponed until order is restored in the violence-racked Sunni Arab heartland, the strongest signal yet that the ballot might not take place in January as scheduled.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Seventeen Iraqi political parties demanded postponement of the Jan. 30 elections for at least six months until the government is capable of securing polling places.
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Despite relentless violence Iraqi main Shiite Muslim parties have rejected demands of secular poiticians and Sunni Moslems to postpone the poll and called on Saturday for elections to go ahead on Jan. 30 as scheduled.
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BAGHDAD -- Leading Sunni Muslim politicians sought postponement yesterday of the Jan. 30 national elections, and a senior official said the government had agreed to meet outside the country with Saddam Hussein supporters to try to persuade them to abandon the insurgency.
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Iraq's parliament might take a week to start debating a key draft oil law, officials said on Wednesday, as complaints from Shi'ite and Sunni Arab politicians and Kurdish authorities signaled its passage could be rocky.
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US officials in Baghdad are fearing a fuel crisis, which is leaving Iraqi homes cold and dark and drivers waiting days for petrol, may inflame unrest before the election.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Sunni Muslim politicians in Iraq are asking the government to postpone the January national election. A former foreign minister said a delay could give political leaders time to persuade Sunni
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ELEANOR HALL: Iraq&#39;s President Ghazi al-Yawar is warning that escalating security problems in the country could force him to delay the national elections scheduled for January.
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Iraqi politician Adnan Pachachi has called for a six-month delay before elections originally scheduled for 30 January. Citing the tense security situation and the need to ensure thet greatest number of Iraqis
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Several political groups in Iraq are calling for the postponement of national elections, scheduled for January 30. The parties, mostly Sunni Muslim, Kurdish and secular groups, cited security