Amid fear, Sunni party pulls out of Jan. vote
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni Arab political faction, yesterday announced its withdrawal from legislative elections scheduled for Jan. 30, saying its demands to delay the vote
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Leaders of Iraq's Sunni minority say they have failed to generate any enthusiasm for nationwide elections scheduled for January.
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The balloting, however, remains imperiled by calls for a Sunni Muslim boycott and a persistent insurgency that has roiled Sunni regions.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A group of leading political parties on Friday called for a six-month delay to the Jan. 30 parliamentary elections, expressing concerns that widening violence would make voting impossible in large swaths of Iraq.
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Washington is pressing neighboring countries to persuade Sunnis in Iraq to vote in next month's elections, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Monday, the same day the top party from the minority group withdrew from the ballot.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government Saturday brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election. Talk of delaying the election gained momentum after influential Sunni Muslim politicians urged the
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For some, voting day will be violent and disappointing. For others, just plain confusing. And the Sunnis may have to be drawn in after the fact
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Iraq&#39;s fragile political settlement appeared to be on the brink of collapse last night, with Sunnis, Shias and Kurds divided over whether elections can take place in January as planned.
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Iraq&#39;s largest party of Sunni Muslims has warned of civil war if elections scheduled for Jan. 30 aren&#39;t moved back six months, The Times of London reports.
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Iraq&#39;s largest mainstream Sunni Muslim party pulled out of the election race yesterday, saying the violence plaguing areas north and west of Baghdad made a &quot;free and fair vote&quot; on January 30 impossible.
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Iraq's president, an influential Sunni Muslim, threw his support Wednesday behind holding the Jan. 30 election on time despite insurgent threats he said have paralyzed voter registration voter registration in some Sunni areas of the country.
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Doubts about holding Iraqi national elections on Jan. 30 produced an alliance few believed possible &#151; Sunni Arabs and Sunni Kurds united in calling for a delay. Less than 24 hours later, the alliance collapsed after Shiite Arabs made clear they would not accept any postponement.
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BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber killed 15 people yesterday in an assassination attempt on the head of Iraq's strongest Shi'ite party before parliamentary elections next month, while the biggest Sunni Muslim political group dealt a blow to ballot plans by withdrawing from the campaign because of the lack of security.
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BAGHDAD -- The interim Iraqi government brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election yesterday. And a spokesman for the majority Shiite Muslim community called the date &quot;non-negotiable.
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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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BAGHDAD, November 10 (Online): Iraqâs Sunni Muslim minority was outraged on Tuesday over the assault on Fallujah, with a political party quitting the US-backed government and calls on Iraqis to boycott national elections promised by the end of January.
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Iraq has chosen January 30 for its first democratic election in decades but violence in Sunni Muslim areas is underlining the challenge of holding polls on time.