Gulf Arabs want broad-based Iraq rule
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&quot;It will be positive to hold Iraqi elections on time ... and protect the interests of all political, ethnic and sectarian. their own significant Shi&#39;ite populations could demand more influence.
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Group favored to win Iraq election tried to play down fears that it would bring an Iranian-style government to country.
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MANAMA, Bahrain -- Campaigning has been dirty and divisive ahead of parliamentary elections today in this US Gulf ally: Mobile text messages warn voters that a landmark Shi'ite Muslim victory would turn Bahrain into a new Iraq and that female candidates will spread immorality.
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Sunni-led Gulf Arab states, worried by  rising Shi'ite power in Iraq, urged the United States on  Tuesday to ensure all religious and ethnic groups take part in  next month's elections, which Shi'ites look poised to win.
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Iraq's interim Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib said Monday he believed Iraq could establish full control of its internal security and borders within 18 months.
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A new political accord between Iraq's main Sunni Arab, Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders will not be enough to lure minority Sunni Arabs back into the government, the Sunni Arab vice president who signed it said on Monday.
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Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is in Jordan for meetings with Iraqi Sunni leaders, including some opposed to US-led efforts to build a new Iraqi society.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president yesterday renewed his call for Sunni-led insurgents to quickly join the Shi'ite prime minister's national reconciliation effort. A Shi'ite festival, meanwhile, drew millions of pilgrims without bloodshed yesterday.
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Why the American President's agenda for the region doesn't square with the perspectives of the area's Arab populace
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A powerful Shi'ite Muslim leader in Iraq called on Friday for U.S.-backed, mainly Sunni neighborhood patrols to be brought under tight government control with a more balanced sectarian makeup.
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Gulf leaders urge President Bush to prioritise the  creation of an independent Palestinian state.
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The political tectonic plates under the Middle East may have at last begun to shift. Some Arab leaders, facing four more years of George W. Bush, seem to have understood the policy message he sent from Canada
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ARBIL, Iraq  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will urge Iraqi Kurdish leaders on Friday to work with Sunnis and Shi'ites, particularly on the controversial issue of managing Iraq's vast oil wealth.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki urged key players at a regional conference on Saturday to adopt a firm stand against terrorism in Iraq and stop playing out their differences in his country.
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Shi'ites may have won the lion's share  of the vote in Iraq's elections but the main alliance will  still have to find new allies if it wants a majority in the new  parliament and to secure passage of a new constitution.  And while Sunni Arabs, who for decades provided Iraq's ruling  elite, failed to win more than a slither of the vote and will  be marginalized in the National Assembly, they still have to be  brought on board for the constitution to be agreed.
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Pro-Western Gulf Arab states meeting for a summit in Bahrain hope that Iraq&#39;s elections will produce a broad-based government, their host said Monday.
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Iraq&#39;s Shiite Muslims led by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Thursday unveiled a broadly based electoral alliance which excludes radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.