Militant Groups Warn Iraqis Not to Vote
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Three militant groups warned Iraqis against voting in Jan. 30 elections, saying Thursday that people participating in the ``dirty farce&#39;&#39; risked attack.
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A powerful group of Sunni Muslim clerics threatened Sunday to call a boycott of Iraqi elections planned for January if US forces launch a widely expected full-scale assault on rebel-held Falluja.
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An al-Qaida front group threatened to assassinate Sunni leaders who support American troops in Iraq as a Shiite bloc loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr defected Saturday from the Iraqi government's parliament base.
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Intimidation has become the major tool for insurgents trying to thwart the Iraqi government, which is trying to mount nationwide parliamentary elections while establishing a homegrown security force.
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THE THREAT: The Association of Muslim Scholars promises to boycott critical January elections in Iraq if coalition forces attack Fallujah.
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Guerrilla groups in Iraq are trying to intimidate Iraqi citizens and scare them away from the polls with threats of death.
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Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi  declared all-out war against Iraq's landmark elections Sunday  in a warning intended to scare away voters a week before they  go to the polls amid a raging insurgency.
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An influential group of Iraqi Sunni  Muslim clerics said Tuesday that elections scheduled for  January would be a farce unless they were nationwide.
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Iraq&#39;s Shiite Muslims are being urged not to respond with violence to two suicide bomb attacks, which have killed 62 people and wounded more than 100 overnight.
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Iraq&#39;s largest party of Sunni Muslims has warned of civil war if elections scheduled for Jan. 30 aren&#39;t moved back six months, The Times of London reports.
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OSAMA bin Laden has urged Iraqis to boycott next month&#39;s poll, claiming the constitution setting up the new government is blasphemous to Muslims and only &quot;infidels&quot; would vote.
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Groups fear that a vote amid persistent violence and a boycott by Sunnis would deprive the results of legitimacy.
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Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi appealed to Iraqis of all religions and ethnic groups to defy militant violence and vote in Sunday's elections.
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Leading Iraqi political groups are calling on the interim government to delay national elections scheduled for January 30, because of ongoing violence in the country.
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A Hamas leader says the Islamic militant group will not field a candidate in the January Palestinian presidential elections. He says he expects Hamas supporters not to participate in the vote.
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Osama bin Laden apparently urged Iraqis  to boycott U.S.-backed elections, endorsing Sunni Muslim  insurgents on the day a senior Shi'ite leader survived a car  bombing and the top Sunni party pulled out of next month's  vote.
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Muslim leaders urged members of Iraq's  fledgling security forces on Monday to refuse to fight  alongside U.S. troops storming the rebel-held city of Falluja,  where Iraqi units have deserted in the past.