Jordan rallies support for Iraq poll
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Jordan hosts a meeting of Iraq's neighbours to rally support for Iraqi elections on 30 January.
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Iraq is far too unsafe to hold elections as scheduled in January and extremists would do well in the poll if Baghdad tried to hold it, Jordan&#39;s King Abdullah said in an interview.
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Public support for the war in Iraq has fallen to a new low and Republican support is beginning to waver, a poll published Tuesday found. In the latest CNN-Opinion Research Corporation poll, 69 percent of those polled believe things are going badly in Iraq, and anti-war sentiment among Republican poll respondents has suddenly increased.
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UNITED NATIONS - Iraq's interim prime minister appealed for a major infusion of foreign troops and international aid to help his country hold elections by January, saying a failure to achieve democracy would be a victory for terrorism.    Standing before the leaders of many nations that opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq, Ayad Allawi on Friday urged the international community to set aside its differences over the legality of the invasion to oust Saddam Hussein and "stand fast by Iraq."  "We need to broaden the base of troop-contributing countries to (the multinational force) so that we would stand more determined and be better equipped to confront terrorism," he said in his first appearance before the U.N...
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Jubilant Iraqi exiles cast their ballots  in a "vote for freedom" on Friday and urged their compatriots  in Iraq to defy insurgents and do the same.
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AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 30 -- President Bush delivered a staunch endorsement of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Thursday morning and dismissed calls for U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq as unrealistic, following a summit meeting in which the two leaders discussed speeding up the turnover of...
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WASHINGTON - Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi sees a bright future for Iraqi democracy, brushing aside skeptics who say elections set for January may be truncated or canceled altogether because of violence.    Defense Secretary Donald H...
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Ayatollah Ali-al Sistani, who halted the three weeks of fighting in Najaf, is the most popular public figure in Iraq, says a poll which shows a deep undercurrent of respect for
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Eager to capitalize on Iraq's elections, President Bush on Tuesday continued to press fellow world leaders to support the new Baghdad government being formed after Sunday's voting.
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Iraqis around the world streamed into polling stations Sunday for their last chance to cast ballots in Iraq's historic election, expressing hopes that the vote will bring peace and stability to their homeland.
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28 September 2004 -- Jordanian King Abdullah II said in an interview today that elections in Iraq are &quot;impossible&quot; amid the continuing insecurity.
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The United States on Wednesday reiterated American support for the Iraqi interim government headed by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. The US supports Allawi and his government&#39;s
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UNITED NATIONS -- Most international specialists assessing the fairness of Iraq's elections will monitor the Jan. 30 vote from the safety of neighboring Jordan, but a few observers will head to Baghdad and perhaps other Iraqi cities if security permits, UN and other officials said yesterday.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: Iraqâs neighbours on Monday approved a final declaration prepared for the international conference under way in Egypt to support the Iraqi political process, Egyptâs foreign minister told reporters.
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Iraq&#39;s president, an influential Sunni Muslim, threw his support Wednesday behind holding the Jan. 30 election on time despite insurgent threats he said have paralyzed voter
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Jordan&#39;s King Abdullah says he believes it will be impossible to hold elections in Iraq if what he calls the current state of chaos continues.
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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.