Main Iraqi Sunni Party withdraws from January elections
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BAGHDAD.âThe main Iraqi Sunni political grouping, the moderate Iraqi Islamic party (IIP), today withdrew its list of candidates for the January 30 elections, on a day once again full of violence in which 13 people died in an attack in Baghdad, DPA
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Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc will end its boycott of the Shi'ite-dominated parliament, officials said on Thursday, in a positive sign for the country's faltering attempts at national reconciliation.
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Washington is pressing neighboring  countries to persuade Sunnis in Iraq to vote in next month's  elections, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Monday, the  same day the top party from the minority group withdrew from  the ballot.
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IRAQ&#39;S election was thrown into doubt yesterday as one of the country&#39;s main Sunni parties withdrew, while a tape purporting to be Osama bin Laden warned Iraqis not to vote.
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November 23, 2004 -- BAGHDAD - Gunmen assassinated two influential Sunni clerics who called for a boycott of national elections, soon after Iraqi officials announced the balloting would be held Jan. 30 in spite of rising violence in the country.
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LEADING Iraqi political parties called last night for elections due on January 30 to be postponed, citing security concerns and inadequate preparation.
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Under the stewardship of the country's most powerful religious figure, Iraq's fractured Shiite Muslim majority has closed ranks and produced a unified list of candidates for the parliamentary elections set for Jan. 30.
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A suicide car bomber hit one of the  biggest Shi'ite Muslim parties running in elections next month,  killing 13 people but missing its leader -- hours before the  most prominent Sunni party withdrew from the historic poll.
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Iraq's plans to hold elections in  January gained traction on Saturday after a Shi'ite militia  agreed to disarm in Baghdad and delegates from rebel-held  Falluja said the Sunni Muslim city wanted to vote in the polls.
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Embattled Sunni Muslims in Iraq may sit out the vote
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BAGHDAD, Dec 27: Thirteen people were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of a top Iraqi Shia political leader, while the country&#39;s main Sunni Muslim party announced a boycott of next month&#39;s crucial elections.
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Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc is suspending its participation in cabinet because of legal steps being taken against one of its ministers, the head of the bloc, Adnan al-Dulaimi, said on Friday.
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Iraq's main Sunni Muslim party, which had threatened to boycott Iraq's first free election on Jan. 30, is among 79 parties and blocs that have registered lists for the poll, election officials said.
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BAGHDAD -- Leading Sunni Muslim politicians sought postponement yesterday of the Jan. 30 national elections, and a senior official said the government had agreed to meet outside the country with Saddam Hussein supporters to try to persuade them to abandon the insurgency.
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A Sunni Arab-led bloc ends its three-month boycott of Iraq's parliament - the last of several groups to return.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government Saturday brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election. Talk of delaying the election gained momentum after influential Sunni Muslim politicians urged the
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Iraq's main Sunni Muslim party, which  had threatened to boycott Iraq's first free election on Jan.  30, is among 79 parties and blocs that have registered lists  for the poll, election officials said.