Iraqis May Extend Election Amid Violence
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Iraq may modify plans for its first  free election to give people more time to vote next month,  officials said Wednesday as suicide bombers and gunmen again  struck Sunni Muslim towns north and west of the capital.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Sunday national elections will go ahead in January as planned despite a countrywide surge in violence against U.S. forces and Iraqi troops and police.
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Embattled Sunni Muslims in Iraq may sit out the vote
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Elections will go ahead in Iraq next January as planned, despite the violence ravaging the country, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Thursday.
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Two-thirds of registered voters in the Iraqi capital say they will cast their ballots in the Jan. 30 election despite the threat of violence, an independent Iraqi newspaper survey found Monday.
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LONDON/BAGHDAD  - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi  said Sunday elections would be held as planned in January  despite a surge in violence across the country.
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BAGHDAD  - Iraq&#39;s electoral commission was due to study a call by top leaders to delay the January 30 polls because of violence gripping the country, as US-led troops continued their anti-insurgency crackdown.
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IRAQâS electoral commission announced yesterday that the countryâs first polls would be held on January 30, amid rising concern that violence would make voting impossible in many Sunni-dominated areas.
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Iraq chose Jan. 30 for its first democratic election in decades on Sunday, but violence in Sunni Muslim areas underlined the challenge of holding polls on time.
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UN Secretary Kofi Annan says January elections in Iraq are still feasible but it is up to the Iraqis to decide whether the vote should go forward amid continuing violence.
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Insurgents threatened a bloodbath on  Sunday when Iraqis go to the polls in an election intended to  unite the country and quell violence but which could instead  foment sectarian strife.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraqi Shiite leaders braced for greater violence but vowed to push ahead with elections in January after twin car bombs claimed the lives of 66 people in the pilgrimage cities of Najaf and Karbala.
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Iraq chose January 30 for its first democratic election in decades today, but violence in Sunni Muslim areas underlined the challenge of holding polls on time.
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Leading Iraqi political parties, including the two main Kurdish groups closely allied to the United States, have called for elections scheduled for January 30 to be postponed because of Iraq&#39;s widening violence.
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The Electoral Commission of Iraq made the announcement after violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday.
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Iraqi elections should go ahead as planned in January despite mounting violence unless the United Nations says it is not feasible, interim President Ghazi al-Yawar says.
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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.