Militant Groups Warn Iraqis Not to Vote
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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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BAGHDAD -- US troops rounded up 49 suspected guerrillas near Saddam Hussein's hometown yesterday, a day after Iraq's most violent rebel groups warned voters against participating in crucial elections for a constitutional assembly Jan. 30.
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Intimidation has become the major tool for insurgents trying to thwart the Iraqi government, which is trying to mount nationwide parliamentary elections while establishing a homegrown security force.
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Insurgents vowing total war on Iraq's  election killed 17 people on the eve of the vote on Saturday  and the country's president warned the violence would scare  most Iraqis away from the polls.
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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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Leading Iraqi political parties have called for forthcoming elections to be delayed because of mounting violence in the country. Fifteen political parties - including two Kurdish groups
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Iraq's president said Saturday that many Iraqis will stay away from the polls in his country's historic election because of security fears and warned the vote will fail if Sunnis don't participate.
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A powerful group of Sunni Muslim  clerics threatened Sunday to call a boycott of Iraqi elections  planned for January if U.S. forces launch a widely expected  full-scale assault on rebel-held Falluja.
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An Islamic militant group in Iraq warned Muslims to skip the country&#39;s coming elections, and said anyone who runs for office would be branded an infidel and &quot;punished in the name of God.
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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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A powerful Sunni Muslim group urged Iraqi security forces today not to fight with US troops preparing to storm the rebel-held city of Falluja.
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A U.S. general warned Friday that insurgents may be planning "spectacular" attacks to scare voters in the three weeks before Iraq's landmark elections, and Shiite and Sunni religious leaders voiced sharply divergent views on whether the vote should be held at all.
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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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Exclusive: Leaders of Iraqi groups say attacks will go on until Americans leave.
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Leading Iraqi political groups are calling on the interim government to delay national elections scheduled for January 30, because of ongoing violence in the country.
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BAGHDAD: Iraqâs main Sunni Muslim political party threatened on Thursday to boycott the countryâs first free election if it goes ahead on January 30 as scheduled.
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An influential group of Iraqi Sunni  Muslim clerics said Tuesday that elections scheduled for  January would be a farce unless they were nationwide.