U.S. Officials Differ on Iraqi Elections
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WASHINGTON - Top U.S. officials differed Friday over key details of planned Iraqi elections in January, including the unresolved issue of whether all Iraqis will be able to vote and who will protect them from their country's worsening violence...
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One Iraqi official says American representatives have met with some militants.
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Iraq's elections should be nationwide, a top Bush administration official said on Friday,  clashing publicly with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's suggestion that voting might not take place in the most violent areas.
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The US government is under pressure from political opponents on whether Iraq's poll can be held as planned.
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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.
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Questions are growing over whether Iraq will be able to hold fully nationwide elections in January as part of its planned transition to a more democratic system of government.
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With just over two weeks until the Iraq election, the Bush administration played down voter turnout Wednesday in determining the election's legitimacy and urged Americans not to get bogged in a numbers game in judging the balloting.
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Until recently, the struggle over Iraq&#39;s election date has divided along sectarian lines. Sunnis, whose religious authorities
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The U.S. State Department's No. 2 official discussed security preparations for this month's Iraq election during a Monday meeting with Turkish officials, who pressed him to move against thousands of autonomy-seeking Turkish Kurds based in northern Iraq.
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The second-ranking official at the State Department said today, in an apparent contradiction of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, that the elections scheduled for Iraq in January must be &quot;open to all citizens.
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US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage clashed publicly with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Friday over whether Iraq&#39;s upcoming elections should cover the
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Americans remain sharply divided in their views of how President Bush is handling Iraq, and their confidence that a stable, democratic government will be established in that country has eroded, an Associated Press poll found.
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The ability of Iraqi insurgents to snatch foreigners from their guarded Baghdad offices highlighted the country&#39;s poor security as US officials argued whether elections could be held in towns under rebel control.
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The Iraqi government has made mixed progress in meeting political and security goals, a U.S. official said on Thursday, citing a report that may add to rising calls for a change of course in the unpopular war.
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Iraq&#39;s election body rejected a suggestion in Washington it adjust the results of next month&#39;s vote to benefit the Sunni minority if low turnout in Sunni areas means Shi&#39;ites
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Iraqi officials said Saturday they are considering new measures to protect voters in the Jan. 30 national election, including a three-day, nationwide ban on driving to discourage car-bombings. Fresh clashes broke out in the troubled northern city of Mosul, where most election officials have fled their jobs in fear.
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Tens of thousands of Iraqi immigrants across the United States who may be entitled to vote in their homeland's elections this month are finding that confusion is the front-runner.