Iraq Insurgents Said Planning Big Pre-Poll Attack
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Iraqi insurgents have reduced the level  of violence in recent days, but may be planning a "more  spectacular" attack just before or during Sunday's elections, a  U.S. general said on Monday.
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Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi declared war on 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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offensive to retake the insurgent-held cities has begun on the eve of the US presidential election. company&#39;s office in Baghdad, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
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Less than four months before planned national elections in Iraq, attacks against US troops, Iraqi security forces and private contractors number in the dozens each
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Election centers have been bombed,  candidates and electoral officials threatened and even killed.  With only a week to go, intimidation is turning Iraq's landmark  polls into a new kind of secret ballot.
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Three suicide car bombs, including one that exploded near the Iraqi prime minister's party headquarters in Baghdad, and a roadside explosion killed at least 16 people Monday as insurgents pressed their deadly campaign to disrupt national elections, which Iraq's defense minister said could be postponed to give the Sunni minority time to participate.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says there are new military plans to defeat the insurgency gripping Iraqi cities, and he says his government will hold elections in January as scheduled.
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JEDDAH/BRUSSELS, 7 November 2004 - Iraq is determined to âflush outâ the insurgents and their foreign allies from their last remaining hideouts well ahead of next Januaryâs elections, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview
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BAGHDAD : More than 3,000 US and Iraqi forces launched an offensive on another rebel enclave in Iraq as Prime Minister Iyad Allawi pledged new plans to crush insurgents before promised January elections.
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President Bush says Iraqis can expect more violence ahead of next month&#39;s planned election, but he says the US military will help ensure that vote takes place as scheduled.
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Insurgents exposed the vulnerability of Iraq's security forces again Sunday, killing at least 22 national guardsmen and their driver in a suicide bombing and 10 other people in separate attacks with elections just weeks away. Prominent Shiite leaders called for unity with Sunni Arabs wanting to delay the vote but insisted it be held despite the violence.
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Three Iraqi insurgent groups gave warning yesterday that anyone taking part in the &quot;dirty farce&quot; of next month&#39;s elections would be exposing themselves to attack.
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The Iraqi interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, said Monday that he expected the election campaign across Iraq to feature an increasing number of attacks like the car
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Iraq said Tuesday it would shut its  land borders and bar traffic from getting close to voting  centers over the Jan. 30 polls to try to thwart attacks, as  insurgents targeted a Shi'ite party with a suicide bomb.
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Insurgents vowing total war on Iraq's  election killed 17 people on the eve of the vote on Saturday  and the country's president warned the violence would scare  most Iraqis away from the polls.
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - Iraqi and U.S. forces are planning  elaborate tactics to protect polling stations from suicide car  bombers expected to launch a wave of attacks on the Jan. 30  elections.
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The aim is to accelerate deployment of Iraqi forces against the insurgents.