Saddam Agents, Militants Plan 'Vicious' Poll Attacks
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Saddam Hussein's former agents are  funding a sophisticated alliance with foreign Muslim militants  to carry out vicious attacks on polling stations during Iraq's  elections, the deputy prime minister said on Sunday.
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Iraq may modify plans for its first  free election to give people more time to vote next month,  officials said on Wednesday as suicide bombers and gunmen again  struck Sunni Muslim towns north and west of the capital.
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Iraq said Tuesday it would shut its  land borders and bar traffic from getting close to voting  centers over the Jan. 30 polls to try to thwart attacks, as  insurgents targeted a Shi'ite party with a suicide bomb.
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BAGHDAD -- US troops staged raids in Mosul and elsewhere in northern and central Iraq yesterday, arresting dozens, while insurgents stepped up attacks two weeks ahead of national elections, ambushing a car carrying a prominent candidate and killing 17 people in other assaults.
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Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi declared war on Iraq's landmark elections Sunday in a warning intended to scare away voters a week before they go to the polls amid a raging insurgency.
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Saddam Hussein's former agents are funding a sophisticated alliance with foreign Muslim militants to carry out vicious attacks on polling stations during Iraq's elections, the deputy prime minister said on Sunday.
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U.S. officials hoping to stop a possible al Qaeda attack before the November election face the difficult task of providing enough security without scaring voters away from the polling stations.
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Insurgents pressed their bloody campaign to sabotage Iraq's Jan. 30 elections with three car bombs and a roadside attack Monday, one near the prime minister's party headquarters in Baghdad and others targeting Iraqi troops and a U.S. security company.
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Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi  declared all-out war on Iraq's landmark elections on Sunday in  a warning intended to scare away voters a week before they go  to the polls amid a raging insurgency.
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Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi  declared war on Iraq's landmark elections Sunday in a warning  intended to scare away voters a week before they go to the  polls amid a raging insurgency.
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Three terrorist groups warned Iraqis against voting in January&#39;s national election, condemning democracy as &quot;un-Islamic&quot; and threatening to attack anyone who participates in the &quot;dirty farce.
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Insurgents killed 15 Iraqis and a U.S.  Marine and bombed half a dozen polling centers on Thursday,  pushing on with a fierce campaign to sabotage Sunday's landmark  elections.
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_ Secretary of State Colin Powell sees the situation in Iraq ``getting worse&#39;&#39; as planned elections approach, and the top US military commander for Iraq says he expects more violence ahead.
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Three militant groups warned Iraqis against voting in Jan. 30 elections, saying Thursday that people participating in the ``dirty farce&#39;&#39; risked attack.
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At least 16 people died in suicide bombings in Baghdad and Mosul yesterday as insurgents stepped up their campaign to undermine Iraq&#39;s security forces and sow ethnic tensions before elections scheduled for January.
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Three militant groups warned Iraqis against voting in Jan. 30 elections, saying Thursday that people participating in the "dirty farce" risked attack. All 700 employees of the electoral commission in Mosul reportedly resigned after being threatened.
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As attacks continue, some officials call for poll delay