Allawi Admits Some Areas Unsafe to Vote
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi publicly acknowledged for the first time Tuesday 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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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has closed Baghdad&#39;s international airport and the country&#39;s borders with Syria and Jordan, and declared a curfew in rebel- held Fallujah
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Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vowed yesterday that Iraq would go ahead with national elections by January, even if rampant violence and insurgent activity
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Iraq's president said Saturday that many Iraqis will stay away from the polls in his country's historic election because of security fears and warned the vote will fail if Sunnis don't participate.
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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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In his first speech before the interim National Assembly here, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi gave a sobering account on Tuesday of the threat posed by the insurgency
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi urged Iraqis Monday to unite behind democracy in the wake of the country's historic elections, but al-Qaida's arm in Iraq vowed to press ahead with its "holy war" despite its failure to stop the voting by millions of Iraqis.
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The interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi insisted that Iraq's looming elections would put an end to the country's bloody violence.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says full security will be impossible for the elections, in the wake of more bombings.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Sunday elections would be held as planned in January despite a surge in violence across the country.
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Iraq's stagnant economy and lack of employment opportunities are feeding instability in the violence-torn country, hindering prospects for prosperity, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Monday.
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One of the candidates Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was fielding in the Jan. 30 elections was killed in the southern city of Basra on Tuesday, officials in Baghdad and Basra said.
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: Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi today said âmajor neglectâ by US-led forces led to the murder of 49 Iraqi army recruits by insurgents this weekend.
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BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said elections would be held as planned in January even as a grisly video surfaced yesterday purporting to show militants sawing off the heads of three Iraqi members of a Kurdish party for co-operating with
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BAGHDAD -- Facing relentless guerrilla attacks on his security forces and on fellow government officials, including car bombings yesterday that killed more than 25 people, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vowed yesterday that Iraq would hold national elections as scheduled Jan. 30.
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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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BAGHDAD In his first speech before the interim national assembly here, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi gave a sobering account Tuesday of the threat posed by the insurgency, saying that the country&#39;s instability was a &quot;source of worry for many people&quot; and that