Iraq poll plans spark new US row
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The US government is under pressure from political opponents on whether Iraq's poll can be held as planned.
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Democrats vowed to force votes on Iraq withdrawal plans &quot;again and again&quot; after US Senate Republicans thwarted their latest bid to wrest control of the unpopular war from President George W. Bush.
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Officials have developed a plan to encircle the 5,700 polling centers with Iraqi security forces and U.S. and British troops. But Iraqi officials have warned that they expect a series of large attacks on, and in the days before, election day.
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Iraqi officials said Saturday they are considering new measures to protect voters in the Jan. 30 national election, including a three-day, nationwide ban on driving to discourage car-bombings. Fresh clashes broke out in the troubled northern city of Mosul, where most election officials have fled their jobs in fear.
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For all their fussing and fuming over Iraq, the US presidential candidates have barely made a dent in the basic attitude of Americans towards the war, a new poll suggested.
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The US House of Representatives was set to condemn President George W. Bush's new strategy on Iraq, in a rare rebuke for the country's commander-in-chief ahead of a bitter debate on whether to continue funding the unpopular war.
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A spokesman for Iraq&#39;s election commission yesterday rejected a suggestion from the Bush administration that it adjust the results of next month&#39;s vote
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The Americans are saying it, the British Government is saying it and so too is Iyad Allawi. Iraqis will go to the polls by the end of January, come what may.
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International resentment of the United States has spilled over to include bad feelings for the American people, too - at least in three European countries that opposed US policies in Iraq.
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Security deterioration forces rethink in election date, US President hopes date would not be changed. By Rouba Kabarra - BAGHDAD. Iraq&#39;s electoral commission said it would examine Saturday a request by 10
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The United States has made a controversial request to Britain to re-deploy some of its troops in Iraq.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell says he sees the situation in Iraq âgetting worseâ as planned elections approach. And the top US military commander for Iraq says he expects more violence in the months ahead.
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The results of the Iraqi election are to be announced on Sunday, amid a fresh wave of insurgent attacks.
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WASHINGTON -- Elections will take place throughout Iraq in January with no exceptions, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday, contradicting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's suggestion that the first democratic poll may not be held in some regions controlled by insurgents.
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US and Iraqi leaders on Monday pledged to hold the Iraqi elections as scheduled amid continued violence in Iraq. &quot;I expressed my strong belief that Iraqi elections must
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Iraq may modify plans for its first free election to give people more time to vote next month, officials said on Wednesday as suicide bombers and gunmen again struck Sunni Muslim towns north and west of the capital.
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BAGHDAD  - Iraq&#39;s landmark January polls looked set to take place as planned although the violence that prompted delay calls remained rife, as an anti-rebel sweep south of Baghdad claimed its first victims and five US troops died in western Iraq.