Labour delegates force Iraq vote
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Iraq is chosen for a vote at Labour conference but Tony Blair says he will not apologise for the war.
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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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While calls mount among Sunnis to  postpone this month's Iraqi election, the reclusive Shi'ite  leader Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani is mobilizing thousands of  clerics to get out the vote.
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Britain&#39;s involvement in Iraq is likely to overshadow the annual conference of Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s Labor Party, despite the British leader&#39;s efforts to shift the focus to domestic issues.
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Iraq&#39;s election commission was expected today to consider a call by top political parties to delay January&#39;s vote because of violence gripping the country.
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The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has avoided a damaging blow at Labour&#39;s annual conference when a motion urging him to set an early date for the withdrawal of British forces from Iraq was defeated.
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The foreign secretary joins fellow foreign ministers for a conference at which they will back elections in Iraq.
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LONDON: Iraq will cost Tony Blair votes, a close ministerial ally of the British prime minister said on Tuesday, six months before an expected general election.
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Five hundred Iraqis have been trained to run and oversee polling stations in Britain to allow up to 150,000 expatriate Iraqis to cast their vote for the elections in Iraq, organizers said.
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The anguish of a British hostage in Iraq hangs over Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday as he faces the twin test of a local election and a debate by his Labour Party about the divisive war.
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The government is under pressure over plans to send UK troops towards central Iraq to assist US forces.
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The huge turnout in Iraq's landmark elections should not be a trigger to hasten the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces from the country, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said.
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BAGHDAD -- Despite renewed attacks on polling places yesterday and continued calls to boycott today's elections, Iraqis lined up this morning to cast ballots for a National Assembly that will begin to put an Iraqi stamp on political and security decisions shaped by the US occupation since the American invasion nearly two years ago.
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The British government is expected to aceed to a US request to send hundreds of its troops to a high-risk zone south of Baghdad, a move that risks infuriating Labour's own backbench MPs.
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Britain's Treasury chief on Monday urged Labour Party members to support Prime Minister Tony Blair and not allow the Iraq war to derail their annual convention.
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Iraq overshadowed the start of Tony Blair&#39;s Labour Party conference on Sunday despite the prime minister&#39;s efforts to turn attention to the domestic agenda ahead of a general election expected next year.
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Description: The Labor Party begins its conference in Brighton, England. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is in danger of losing his job over his controversial Iraq policy.