Iraqis Urged to Boycott Jan. 30 National Election
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Any Iraqi who votes in the Jan. 30 election will become "a nonbeliever," according to an audiotape attributed to Osama bin Laden and broadcast yesterday by al-Jazeera.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A group of 17 leading Iraqi political organizations, including some of America&#39;s closest allies, called Friday for a postponement of elections scheduled for Jan. 30, citing the violence and a lack of preparations.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Leading Sunni Muslim politicians yesterday urged postponement of the Jan. 30 national elections, and a senior official said the government had agreed to meet outside the country with Saddam
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Baghdad (BBC) -- Several leading Iraqi political parties have called for the national elections scheduled for 30 January to be delayed.
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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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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's interim prime minister said yesterday that he's confident only a small number of people will boycott the Jan. 30 elections, despite anger among many Sunni Muslims over the Fallujah offensive and a deadly US-Iraqi raid on a Baghdad mosque.
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Iraqi officials say Jan. 30 has been set as the new date for the war-torn country&#39;s first national elections since a US-led military coalition toppled Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime.
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BAGHDAD -- Three militant groups warned Iraqis against voting in Jan. 30 elections, saying yesterday 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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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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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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Religious and political leaders gather at the Umm al-Qura Sunni Muslim mosque outside Baghdad, where clerics called for their followers to boycott Iraq&#39;s January elections.
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A senior Shi'ite cleric urged Iraqis on Saturday to boycott Sunday's landmark elections and take up arms to expel U.S. forces from the country.
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Elections in Iraq scheduled to take place by Jan. 31 may be postponed because of continued widespread violence or a coordinated boycott by Sunni Muslims, US and Iraqi officials said.
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Iraqis will go to the polls at the end of January to choose a national assembly which drafts a permanent constitution, but several groups have already vowed to boycott the elections.
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An influential group of Sunni Muslim  clerics on Tuesday urged Iraqis to boycott the first democratic  election in decades in protest at a U.S.-led offensive against  the rebel-held city of Falluja.
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Iraq&#39;s Electoral Commission has announced that elections in the country will go ahead on January 30, not January 27 as previously suggested.
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Iraqi Electoral Commission announced Sunday that it set the date of Jan. 30 as the date of the national election, which had previously been tentatively set for Jan. 27, said reports reaching here from Beirut, Lebanon.