Iraq's Allawi Optimistic on Jan. Elections
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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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Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi vowed to stick to plans to hold an election in January 2005 even though the US and Britain are struggling to keep order in the nation.
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LONDON/BAGHDAD  - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi  said Sunday elections would be held as planned in January  despite a surge in violence across the country.
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Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says his country will remain united before Iraq&#39;s first election scheduled in January.
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Elections will go ahead in Iraq next  January as planned, despite the violence ravaging the country,  interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Thursday.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi publicly acknowledged for the first time Tuesday that parts of Iraq probably won't be safe enough for people to vote in the Jan. 30 elections, and he announced plans to boost the size of the country's army from 100,000 to 150,000 men by year's end.
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PARIS : Iraq&#39;s elections will go ahead as scheduled in January even if some Iraqis are unable to vote due to the security situation in the country, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview published in the several western daily newspapers.
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The interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi insisted that Iraq's looming elections would put an end to the country's bloody violence.
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Iraq's interim Prime Minister told British media in an interview published on Monday he wanted elections to go ahead as planned in January even if violence prevented some Iraqis from voting.
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Iraq's interim PM hails Sunday's election amid reports that turnout in Sunni areas was not as low as expected.
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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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Iraq will hold national elections on  Jan. 27, Vice President Ibrahim al-Jaafari said on Friday.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Sunday elections would be held on schedule in January despite a surge in violence and more than a score of hostages under threat of death from insurgents.
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Meeting with President Bush, the Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi pledged Thursday that Iraq's elections would take place in January despite escalating violence.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said most of Iraq is ``completely safe&#39;&#39; and he pledged that terrorists won&#39;t prevent elections from being held in January as planned.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - In a surprise announcement yesterday, Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi promised that former officials in Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime will go on trial next week, before elections scheduled for January.
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Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Sunday that elections would go ahead as scheduled in January despite unrelenting violence and said trials of ousted leader Saddam Hussein and his lieutenants would likely begin in October.