Iraq&#39;s Sunni president backs Jan. 30 elections despite rebel ...
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Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawer, an influential Sunni Muslim, on Wednesday endorsed countrywide elections scheduled for Jan. 30 despite rebel threats he said have paralysed voter registration in some Sunni areas of the country.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush joined the interim president of Iraq yesterday in insisting that Iraqi elections be held Jan. 30, saying that keeping to the election schedule will deter insurgents and quicken the pace toward peace and democracy in Iraq.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi  said elections would go ahead as planned in January, despite  continuing violence which Thursday killed 41 people including  34 children.
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President George W. Bush said he is ``determined&#39;&#39; to see Iraq hold elections Jan. 30 even as rebel attacks escalate, and any delay would ``send a wrong signal.
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President George W. Bush said he hopes elections in Iraq go forward as planned on Jan. 30. Bush was responding to a question about news reports from Baghdad that Iraqi political parties
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Iraq has chosen January 30 for its first democratic election in decades but violence in Sunni Muslim areas is underlining the challenge of holding polls on time.
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CRAWFORD, Texas  - President Bush said on  Wednesday it was important that elections in Iraq proceed as  planned next month, despite festering security concerns and the  withdrawal of a top Sunni party.
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is opposing any delay in elections scheduled for Jan. 30, as demanded by other political factions.
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Iraq's president said on Wednesday that  elections should go ahead next month as planned, distancing  himself from other leading Sunni Arab politicians who are  demanding the polls be postponed due to widespread unrest.
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Until recently, the struggle over Iraq&#39;s election date has divided along sectarian lines. Sunnis, whose religious authorities
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The first post-Saddam Hussein elections in Iraq will take place on January 30 despite boycott calls from Sunni Muslims, violence and disaster over the country, announced Iraq on Sunday.
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President Bush said on Thursday that  Iraq's scheduled Jan. 30 elections should not be postponed  despite calls by some Iraqi politicians for a delay to improve  security against a deadly insurgency.
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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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More Iraqi interim government officials are calling for postponing Jan. 30 elections to ensure a higher Sunni voter turnout, a sign that a campaign of violence might be taking its toll on Iraqi resolve. The country's electoral commission, however, insists that voting take place as scheduled.
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BAGHDAD -- The interim Iraqi government brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election yesterday. And a spokesman for the majority Shiite Muslim community called the date &quot;non-negotiable.
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Iraq&#39;s largest party of Sunni Muslims has warned of civil war if elections scheduled for Jan. 30 aren&#39;t moved back six months, The Times of London reports.
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Iraq&#39;s Electoral Commission has announced that elections in the country will go ahead on January 30, not January 27 as previously suggested.