Iraq Vote Count Proceeds Despite Al Qaeda Threats
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Iraq compiled election results on  Tuesday and eased the security lockdown for the historic multi-  party vote despite al Qaeda's vow to pursue "holy war."
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BAGHDAD -- With Iraq still counting millions of ballots from Sunday's historic national elections, US and Iraqi officials looked ahead yesterday to their most pressing challenges, from taming an insurgency that mounted a record 250 attacks on election day to coaxing the many Sunni Muslims who did not vote into accepting the new government.
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Iraqis embraced democracy in large numbers Sunday, standing in long lines to vote in defiance of mortar attacks, suicide bombers and boycott calls. Pushed in wheelchairs or carts if they couldn't walk, the elderly, the young and women in veils cast ballots in Iraq's first free election in a half-century.
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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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Attacks on election centers are almost unheard-of in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf -- in sharp contrast to many other parts of Iraq. Poll officials rarely receive threats from insurgents bent on disrupting Sunday's poll, all too common elsewhere.
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PARIS  -- Elections in Iraq will go ahead as scheduled in January, even if some Iraqis could not vote, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview published Monday in the French daily Le Figaro.
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Iraq's first open election in decades is hailed by Iraqi officials and other leaders, despite a spate of attacks.
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LONDON -- The day after Iraqis defied the threat of violence and voted by the millions, world leaders from Europe to the Middle East, many of whom had opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq, said yesterday the national election was a step forward.
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A radical cleric's refusal to endorse the election foreshadowed a less than overwhelming voter turnout in Iraq.
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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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Millions of Iraqis flocked to vote in a  historic election Sunday, defying insurgents who killed 25  people in bloody attacks aimed at wrecking the poll.
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Iraqi PM Iyad Allawi says elections will take place in January as scheduled, despite continuing violence.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi insisted elections will go ahead as scheduled in January despite a surge in violence, promising Sunday that the vote would be a "major blow" to the insurgency, as U.S. warplanes and artillery pounded the guerrilla stronghold of Fallujah...
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The results of the Iraqi election are to be announced on Sunday, amid a fresh wave of insurgent attacks.
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Iraq's interim government voiced  confidence on Monday that an election it has scheduled for Jan.  30 will go ahead despite violence and intimidation in some  areas and a threat of a boycott by the once dominant Sunni  minority.
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BAGHDAD  - The presidents of Iraq and the United States vowed to stick to the January 30 date for landmark elections, despite a flare-up of violence that left about 100 dead in three days.
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A bomb targeting a prominent Shiite cleric killed seven people outside one of southern Iraq's holiest shrines Wednesday as campaigning began for Iraq's first post-Saddam elections &#151; a vote that is going ahead despite suicide attacks and assassinations by Sunni insurgents.