Sunni Vote Boycott May Not Hurt Community
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There are no election posters anywhere in sight in Baghdad's Sunni stronghold of Azamiyah. Even when a single banner for a Sunni-led party was put up recently, local youths promptly hauled it down.
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By Andrew Edwards, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Sep. 12--HIGHLAND -- The debate that City Council members are expected to  hear tonight won't be a matter of church versus state.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's interim prime minister said yesterday that he's confident only a small number of people will boycott the Jan. 30 elections, despite anger among many Sunni Muslims over the Fallujah offensive and a deadly US-Iraqi raid on a Baghdad mosque.
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Iraq's Electoral Commission on Sunday  dismissed suggestions from Washington that minority Sunni Arabs  could get extra seats in parliament after next month's election  to avoid Shi'ite domination if Sunnis fail to vote.
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In the small village of Khanpayari, in central Punjab, voting is brisk despite the boycott by the Islamist party
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister said yesterday that he&#39;s confident that only a small number of people will boycott the Jan. 30 elections despite anger among many Sunni Muslims about the Fallujah offensive and a US-Iraqi raid on a Baghdad mosque.
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: Plagued by violence and fearing reprisals, many of Iraq&#39;s Sunnis said today they had resolved to stay at home on election day long before Osama bin Laden said anyone who voted was a infidel.
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Tens of thousands of Iraqis, notably in restive Sunni Arab areas, may have been denied their right to vote on Sunday because of insufficient ballots and polling centers, officials said.
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Facing the prospect of a Shiite Muslim landslide, Sunni politicians offered on Saturday to participate in mapping the nation's political future. But Sunni rebels showed no sign of compromise, killing three U.S. troops and at least 33 Iraqis in a string of attacks.
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Tens of thousands of Iraqis, notably in  restive Sunni Arab areas, may have been denied their right to  vote on Sunday because of insufficient ballots and polling  centers, officials said.
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Elections in Iraq scheduled to take place by Jan. 31 may be postponed by continued widespread violence or a coordinated boycott by Sunni Muslims, US and Iraqi officials said.
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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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A new political accord between Iraq's main Sunni Arab, Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders will not be enough to lure boycotting Sunni Arabs back into the government, a spokesman for the biggest Sunni Arab bloc said on Monday.
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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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Iraqi elections sheduled to take place by January 31 may be postponed due to continued widespread violence or a coordinated boycott by Sunni Muslims, US and Iraqi officials said.
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Iraq's elections will be legitimate if  roughly half the Sunni Arab minority votes despite threats of  violence, a leading politician in the Shi'ite alliance expected  to dominate the polls said on Saturday.
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The large turnout seen in many parts of Iraq -- and in many parts of Mosul -- did not materialize in the southeast quadrant of the city. A month-long campaign of violence by insurgents in the Sunni Muslim neighborhoods of al-Whada and Palestine proved effective; a reporter who visited all four sites saw a total of four voters, all women.