Under Fire, Election Workers in Iraq Are Scared but Resolute
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Iraq's election workers are surviving the frontlines of an insurgency determined to stop the electoral process.
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Iraq had a rare moment out of the world spotlight in the past week, eclipsed by the tsunami devastation in Southeast Asia. But the country saw a host of critically important political developments and deadly attacks that could cripple elections set for Jan. 30, and that suggest the insurgents are refining their strategy to wreck the vote.
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Violence in Iraq is unlikely to subside  after Sunday's election and may well get worse before it gets  better, U.S. and British officials say, a sentiment seconded by  many Iraqis.
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With Iraq&#39;s elections only five weeks away, waves of violence continue to grip the country. In one incident, five Iraqis were killed and several wounded in a car bomb attack
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A survey of Iraqi politicians and citizens shows that they believe a withdrawal of U.S. troops levels could lead to a violent chain reaction.
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Only four weeks before crucial  elections, sectarian divisions threaten to worsen Iraq's  unrest, with majority Shi'ite Muslims poised for political  dominance and many Sunni Arabs boycotting the polls or too  afraid to vote.
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Mohammed Slaibi was planning to vote in Iraq's first post-Saddam Hussein election until attackers burned down the local election office.
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Iraqi bureaucrats are so fearful and confused by anticorruption measures that they are afraid to sign off on contracts.
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The organizational challenges of mounting fair elections in Iraq have been lost in the wash of violence and political strife.
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Paranoia, frustration, fear and even rage: not the typical emotions Americans experience when exercising their otherwise satisfying civic duty in the voting booth.
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To mark the occasion in a show of defiance, his lieutenants have staged a hunger strike. They are concerned they could be handed over to the Iraqis following elections in the country next month.
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Emotional and jubilant Iraqi  expatriates braved long trips and frigid weather to cast their  votes across the United States on Friday, their enthusiasm  making up for their low numbers.
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Washington, Dec. 21 (PTI): A majority of Americans among those who believed at the beginning that the Iraq war would be swift and victorious now think it was a mistake and the January 30 elections to be held in the country would not be honest.
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In Iraq, the Sunnis are the targets of an intimidation campaign by insurgents using violence to disrupt the elections. Under threat of death, they have been warned not to run, not to vote, not to participate.
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To say there&#39;s no cause for worry about the upcoming national elections in Iraq is like saying winter blizzards will never arrive in Chicago.
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Iraqi forces, whose performance is crucial to securing January elections, are riddled with problems, say local U.S. officials.
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Some smiled, some were stoic and others hid their faces as Iraqis went to the polls Sunday, braving anti-U.S. insurgents determined to drown the historic vote in blood.