Parties push to delay election in Iraq
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LEADING Iraqi political parties called last night for elections due on January 30 to be postponed, citing security concerns and inadequate preparation.
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Iraq&#39;s electoral commission says it will consider a call by top political parties to delay January elections because of violence gripping the country.
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One of Iraq&#39;s most powerful Shi&#39;ite Muslim parties said on Saturday any delay to planned Jan. 30 elections would be a victory for insurgents trying to wreck the process.
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Iraq&#39;s electoral commission has said it will consider a request from leading political parties to delay general elections scheduled for 30 January.
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Iraq&#39;s election commission said Friday it would consider a call by top political parties to postpone the planned January election.
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Despite relentless violence Iraqi main Shiite Muslim parties have rejected demands of secular poiticians and Sunni Moslems to postpone the poll and called on Saturday for elections to go ahead on Jan. 30 as scheduled.
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Influential Sunni Muslim groups and Iraq&#39;s two main Kurdish movements yesterday requested a delay in nationwide legislative elections set for Jan. 30, saying they feared
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Several political groups in Iraq are calling for the postponement of national elections, scheduled for January 30. The parties, mostly Sunni Muslim, Kurdish and secular groups, cited security
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The decision announced yesterday by Iraqi, American and United Nations officials to hold elections on Jan 30 reflected a judgment that delaying voting would further embolden insurgents and nudge Iraq closer to anarchy.
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BAGHDAD -- A leading Sunni politician said an effort to delay Iraq&#39;s January election is growing in popularity and has even won support of the interim leader&#39;s party.
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Delaying Iraq's elections beyond  Jan. 30 would give insurgents a tactical victory and provide no  guarantee that security there would improve, Bush  administration officials said on Wednesday.
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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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Seventeen political parties on Friday demanded postponement of the Jan. 30 elections for at least six months until the government is capable of securing polling places.
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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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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 -- Leading Iraqi politicians called yesterday for a six-month delay in the Jan. 30 election because of the spiraling violence as US 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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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.