Iraq's main Sunni bloc to boycott cabinet
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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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Iraqâs main Sunni Arab bloc has agreed to rejoin Iraqâs Shiâite-led government after key demands for returning were met, two officials from the bloc said.
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Leading Sunni clerics declared on  Wednesday that any government emerging from Iraq's historic  election would lack legitimacy because many people had  boycotted a poll they said was tainted by a U.S.-led  occupation.
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Iraq's acting parliamentary speaker urged political blocs on Thursday to end their boycott of the legislature to help push through vital laws designed to ease sectarian tension between Shi'ite and Sunni Arabs.
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BAGHDAD, November 10 (Online): Iraqâs Sunni Muslim minority was outraged on Tuesday over the assault on Fallujah, with a political party quitting the US-backed government and calls on Iraqis to boycott national elections promised by the end of January.
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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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A spokesman for Iraq&#39;s interim government has rejected calls, mainly by Sunni and Kurdish groups, to postpone the country&#39;s first national elections.
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The head of Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc said on Saturday the bloc had agreed to rejoin the Shi'ite-led government, but other senior officials said no final decision had been made.
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A leading group of Sunni clerics says any government elected after Sunday's poll will not reflect popular will.
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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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BAGHDAD In the first major political backlash over the siege of Falluja, the country&#39;s most prominent Sunni political party said Tuesday that it was withdrawing from the interim Iraqi government, and the leading group of Sunni clerics urged Iraqis to
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Iraq&#39;s interim government is resigned to a partial boycott of the Jan. 30 elections although it is trying to draw all parties into the political process, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Tuesday.
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Baghdad -- A group representing thousands of Sunni Arab mosques around the country said Wednesday that it would call for a boycott of the elections in January if the US military and the Iraqi government continued the military operations around the
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WASHINGTON  - US Secretary of State Colin Powell urged that Sunni Muslims be fairly represented in a new Iraqi government despite threats by many Sunnis to boycott elections expected to produce a big win for the Shiite majority.
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The Sunni Arab leaders who staged a boycott of last week's elections expressed a new willingness Friday to engage the coming Iraqi government and play a role in writing the constitution.
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BAGHDAD, July 17 -- The political bloc of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ended its month-long boycott of the Iraqi parliament, a spokesman for the group said Tuesday, a political advance amid sectarian violence that included the slaying of 29 Shiites overnight by men dressed in military uniforms.
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Iraq's parliament agreed on Thursday to   begin looking at a potentially divisive draft law on federalism   that minority Sunnis fear could break up the country and leave   them with little access to its oil wealth.