Sunni clerics urge Iraq election boycott
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Iraq&#39;s largest group of Sunni Muslim clerics on Wednesday ordered followers to boycott January&#39;s parliamentary elections if US forces don&#39;t break off their military campaign in the flash-point city of Fallujah.
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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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Iraqi political figures continued on Sunday to react to a movement by Sunni Arabs to delay elections by six months.
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Gunmen on Monday assassinated a member of an influential Sunni clerics&#39; group that has called for a boycott of national elections, just a day after Iraqi officials announced the balloting would be held Jan. 30 in spite of rising violence in Iraq.
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More Iraqi interim government officials are calling for postponing Jan. 30 elections to ensure a higher Sunni voter turnout, a sign that a campaign of violence might be taking its toll on Iraqi resolve. The country's electoral commission, however, insists that voting take place as scheduled.
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Iraq&#39;s most powerful Shiite cleric is opposing a drive by prominent Sunni and Kurdish political factions to delay elections scheduled for Jan. 30, an aide to the cleric and Shiite leaders said Saturday.
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More than 30 prominent Islamic clerics from Saudi Arabia on Monday called on Sunni Muslims around the Middle East to support their brethren in Iraq against Shiites and praised the insurgency.
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A powerful group of Sunni Muslim  clerics threatened Sunday to call a boycott of Iraqi elections  planned for January if U.S. forces launch a widely expected  full-scale assault on rebel-held Falluja.
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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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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim parties and the religious leadership headed by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani yesterday 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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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Delegates at Iraq's National Conference called Monday for radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to abandon his uprising against U.S. and Iraqi troops and pull his fighters out of a holy shrine in Najaf...
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Iraqi security forces arrested two Sunni clerics and more than a dozen of followers in two separate raids on mosques south of Baghdad, a Muslim cleric's group said Saturday.
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A powerful group of Sunni Muslim clerics threatened Sunday to call a boycott of Iraqi elections planned for January if US forces launch a widely expected full-scale assault on rebel-held Falluja.
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A powerful Sunni Muslim group urged Iraqi security forces today not to fight with US troops preparing to storm the rebel-held city of Falluja.
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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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An audio tape purportedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden urged Iraqis Monday to boycott January&#39;s elections, saying anyone who takes part would be an &quot;infidel.
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Iraq's main Sunni Muslim party, which  had threatened to boycott Iraq's first free election on Jan.  30, is among 79 parties and blocs that have registered lists  for the poll, election officials said.