Iraqi Govt. Stands by Voting Date Despite Violence
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Iraq's interim government voiced  confidence on Monday that an election it has scheduled for Jan.  30 will go ahead despite violence and intimidation in some  areas and a threat of a boycott by the once dominant Sunni  minority.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Sunday elections would be held as planned in January despite a surge in violence across the country.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An official of a Sunni political party said Thursday the group would push forward with demands to postpone general elections despite statements the government was committed to holding the vote on Jan. 30.
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Iraqi authorities set Jan. 30 as the date for the nation's first election since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and pledged that voting would take place throughout the country despite rising violence and calls by Sunni clerics for a boycott.
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LONDON/BAGHDAD  - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi  said Sunday national elections will go ahead in January as  planned despite a countrywide surge in violence against U.S.  forces and Iraqi troops and police.
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BAGHDAD  - The presidents of Iraq and the United States vowed to stick to the January 30 date for landmark elections, despite a flare-up of violence that left about 100 dead in three days.
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BAGHDAD  - Iraq&#39;s landmark January polls looked set to take place as planned, although ongoing violence did nothing to alleviate the security concerns of the proponents of a delay.
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Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Sunday that elections would go ahead as scheduled in January despite unrelenting violence and said trials of ousted leader Saddam Hussein and his lieutenants would likely begin in October.
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BAGHDAD: The presidents of Iraq and the United States pledged yesterday there would be no delay to landmark elections on January 30 despite a flare-up of violence that left about 100 dead in three days.
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Iraq&#39;s main Shi&#39;ite parties insisted on Saturday that elections should go ahead on Jan. 30 as planned, rejecting mounting calls from Sunni and secular politicians
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Iraq must push ahead with Jan. 30 elections despite relentless bloodshed, voter intimidation and attacks on electoral staff, the chief U.N. election official in the country said Sunday.
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Meeting with President Bush, the Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi pledged Thursday that Iraq's elections would take place in January despite escalating violence.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 28 -- Parliament voted unanimously Tuesday to keep Iraq under a state of emergency for 30 more days, as a U.S. military spokesman said he expects violence to escalate over the next few weeks in response to Thursday's bombings in Sadr City.
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BAGHDAD - Iraq will hold national elections on January 27, the country&#39;s vice-president Ibrahim al-Jaafari said Friday. The war-torn country is currently ruled by an interim government appointed last June
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Two-thirds of registered voters in the  Iraqi capital say they will cast their ballots in the Jan. 30  election despite the threat of violence, an independent Iraqi  newspaper survey found Monday.
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Elections will go ahead in Iraq next  January as planned, despite the violence ravaging the country,  interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Thursday.
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Interim Iraqi President Ghazi  al-Yawar reaffirmed his support on Sunday for holding elections  on Jan. 30 in Iraq, saying any delay would be a victory for  violent foes and trigger resentment.