Iraq Rejects U.S. Talk of Bolstering Sunni Vote
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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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BAGHDAD -- Leading Sunni Muslim politicians sought postponement yesterday 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 persuade them to abandon the insurgency.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, yesterday rejected suggestions that an international conference be held to address the violence wracking his country, echoing sentiments expressed by other leading politicians in the war-torn country.
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The United States, Britain and Iraq on Friday angrily dismissed a warning from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan that a military offensive in the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah could jeopardize the credibility of upcoming elections in Iraq.
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King Abdullah of Jordan, one of the United States key allies in the Middle East, has come out strongly against holding elections in Iraq in January.
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Washington is pressing neighboring countries to persuade Sunnis in Iraq to vote in next month&#39;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 -- Iraq&#39;s top general yesterday rejected US President George W. Bush&#39;s criticism that some Iraqi troops were unwilling to fight insurgents and have deserted the battlefield, saying the president had been misinformed.
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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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BAGHDAD -- President Ghazi al-Yawer of Iraq, an influential Sunni Muslim, threw his support yesterday behind holding the Jan. 30 election on time despite insurgent threats he said have paralyzed voter registration in some Sunni areas.
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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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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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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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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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President Bush rejected calls for a delay in next month&#39;s Iraqi elections, insisting Thursday that the vote was too important to put off even though violence and chaos still grip the country.
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The Iraqi government yesterday brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election, and a spokesman for the majority Shiite community called the date ``nonnegotiable
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Iraq's president rejects a high-level US report calling for changes in American strategy in Iraq.
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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.