Iraq&#39;s Sunni Clerics Call for Election Boycott
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An influential group of Sunni Muslim clerics on Tuesday urged Iraqis to boycott the first democratic election in decades in protest at a US-led offensive against the rebel-held city of Falluja.
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Iraqi political figures continued on Sunday to react to a movement by Sunni Arabs to delay elections by six months.
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Their comments follow calls by Sunni Muslim politicians and others to postpone the Jan. 30 election. Yesterday, 17 Iraqi political parties representing Sunni Arabs, Kurds, Christians and secular groups demanded a six-month delay.
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Religious and political leaders gather at the Umm al-Qura Sunni Muslim mosque outside Baghdad, where clerics called for their followers to boycott Iraq&#39;s January elections.
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An audiotape said to be the voice of Osama bin Laden called on Iraqis to boycott the 30 January elections yesterday as a top Shia politician was targeted by bombers and the main Sunni Arab party withdrew from the poll.
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A senior Shi'ite cleric urged Iraqis on Saturday to boycott Sunday's landmark elections and take up arms to expel U.S. forces from the country.
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Osama bin Laden called on Monday night for a boycott of January elections in Iraq. Downing Street and Intelligence services are taking the latest call very seriously.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 27 -- Iraq's Shiite Muslim parties and the religious leadership headed by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani on Saturday rejected a demand by other communities for a delay in nationwide elections scheduled for Jan. 30, in an escalating dispute that magnifies the country's ethnic and sectarian fault lines.
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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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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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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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Leading Sunni Muslim politicians Thursday urged postponement of the Jan. 30 national elections, and a senior official said the government had agreed to meet outside the country with Saddam Hussein supporters to try to convince them to abandon the insurgency.
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An audio tape purportedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden urged Iraqis Monday to boycott January&#39;s elections, saying anyone who takes part would be an &quot;infidel.
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Iraq&#39;s Shiite Muslim parties and the religious leadership headed by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani on Saturday rejected a demand by other communities for a delay in nationwide elections scheduled for Jan.
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Iraq's main Sunni Muslim party, which had threatened to boycott Iraq's first free election on Jan. 30, is among 79 parties and blocs that have registered lists for the poll, election officials said.
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CAIRO - A man believed to be Osama bin Laden urges Iraqis to boycott next month&#39;s elections and endorses Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi as his Iraqi deputy in an audiotape broadcast Monday by Al-Jazeera television.
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Delegates at Iraq's National Conference called on radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to abandon his uprising against U.S. and Iraqi troops and pull his fighters out of a holy shrine in Najaf.