Mosul election workers reportedly resign after threat
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BAGHDAD, Iraq A warning from militants has reportedly frightened all 700 employees of the electoral commission in Mosul, Iraq, to resign.
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Separate attacks in Mosul, Iraq, over two days also wounded eight, underscoring security concerns in the country's third-largest city with just 18 days left before nationwide elections take place.
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MOSUL, Iraq - âThey come up in their Opelâs, attack and leave,â says a business owner in the heart of Mosul, explaining how insurgents operate in Iraqâs northern capital.
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MOSCOW -- The intense US-led assault on Fallujah could undermine Iraq's upcoming elections, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned yesterday, and the UN refugee agency expressed concern about the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled the besieged city.
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A senior US state department official resigns after criticism of how private security firms in Iraq are supervised.
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Sudden attack on convoy in Mosul underscores risks in securing Iraq before the Jan. 30 elections.
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Election centers have been bombed,  candidates and electoral officials threatened and even killed.  With only a week to go, intimidation is turning Iraq's landmark  polls into a new kind of secret ballot.
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Three militant groups warned Iraqis on Thursday against voting in the election scheduled for Jan. 30, saying that people taking part in the &quot;dirty farce&quot; risked attack.
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ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish company said Sunday it was withdrawing from Iraq a day after Iraqi militants threatened to behead its employee unless it ceased operations in the country, the Anatolia news agency reported.    The group, calling itself the Islamic Resistance Movement - Al-Noaman Brigades, released a tape showing a bearded man, purported to be the Turkish truck driver, sitting in front of a black banner bearing the group's name in gold Arabic characters...
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Gunmen bombed two churches in the  tense Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, fueling fears of ethnic  and sectarian unrest ahead of an election next month.
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A leading Shiite political figure showed signs of unease on Thursday about the risks that the continuing violence here poses for the elections.
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The Iraqi government has sent national guard reinforcements to the northern city of Mosul after an upsurge in violence there. The authorities in Baghdad sacked Mosul&#39;s police chief after police stations were
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The US general in charge of Mosul says the northern Iraqi city is back under US and Iraqi control, but admits a two-day insurgent rampage last week caused alarm and stretched security forces.
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Insurgents were in charge of some areas of south and western Mosul on Saturday, holding two police stations and manning road blocks, as Iraq's third largest city appeared to slide out of U.S. and Iraqi control.
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Two employers of a Turkish truck driver taken hostage in Iraq have agreed to pull out of the country following a threat by his captors to behead him, media sources report.
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Leading Iraqi politicians called Friday for a six-month delay in the Jan. 30 election because of the spiraling violence as U.S. forces uncovered more bodies in the northern city of Mosul, apparent victims of an intimidation campaign by insurgents against Iraq's fledgling security forces.
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has threatened to withdraw his support for nationwide elections unless changes are made to the electoral system.