Militant Groups Warn Iraqis Not to Vote
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Three militant groups warned Iraqis against voting in Jan. 30 elections, saying Thursday that people participating in the ``dirty farce&#39;&#39; risked attack.
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Muslim leaders urged members of Iraq's  fledgling security forces on Monday to refuse to fight  alongside U.S. troops storming the rebel-held city of Falluja,  where Iraqi units have deserted in the past.
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TERROR boss Osama bin Laden has told Iraqis in a new taped message that those taking part in elections would be infidels. And the Sunni minority&#39;s main party is threatening a boycott, placing the landmark vote next month under increasing pressure.
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A powerful Sunni Muslim group urged Iraqi security forces today not to fight with US troops preparing to storm the rebel-held city of Falluja.
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The Iraqi government brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election, and a spokesman for the majority Shiite community called the date "nonnegotiable." Insurgents stepped up attacks, blasting U.S. patrols in Baghdad and killing a U.S. soldier north of the capital.
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A powerful group of Sunni Muslim  clerics threatened Sunday to call a boycott of Iraq's first  free elections in decades if U.S. forces launch a  widely-expected assault on the rebel stronghold of Falluja.
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Groups fear that a vote amid persistent violence and a boycott by Sunnis would deprive the results of legitimacy.
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An Iraqi militant group threatened in an Internet posting Wednesday to kill a Turkish hostage if his government did not close down the company that employs him.
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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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Iraqis will go to the polls at the end of January to choose a national assembly which drafts a permanent constitution, but several groups have already vowed to boycott the elections.
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Some of Iraq&#39;s most powerful political groups, including the party led by the interim prime minister, called Friday for a six-month delay in elections scheduled for Jan. 30, citing concerns over security.
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A militant group claiming to have kidnapped three foreign election workers in Afghanistan told news agencies Saturday that the hostages would be killed unless all Taliban
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Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage says violence in Iraq is bound to increase ahead of the country's January elections -- because the insurgents "fear" the balloting.
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An influential group of Sunni Muslim clerics on Tuesday urged Iraqis to boycott the first democratic election in decades in protest at a US-led offensive against the rebel-held city of Falluja.
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Osama bin Laden apparently urged Iraqis to boycott U.S.-backed elections, endorsing Sunni Muslim insurgents on the day a senior Shi'ite leader survived a car bombing and the top Sunni party pulled out of next month's vote.
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Insurgents stepped up attacks Thursday against polling centers across Iraq, killing at least a dozen people, including a U.S. Marine, in the rebel campaign to frighten Iraqis away from participating in this weekend's election.
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Iraq&#39;s Shiite Muslims are being urged not to respond with violence to two suicide bomb attacks, which have killed 62 people and wounded more than 100 overnight.