Sunni Clerics Call for Elections Boycott
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi smiles during a visit with Iraqi troops at Camp Fallujah, on the outskirts of Fallujah, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 8, 2004.
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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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Embattled Sunni Muslims in Iraq may sit out the vote
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The most senior Shia cleric in Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, has called for general elections in the country to go ahead as planned.
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Capturing the city could mean a Sunni election boycott, but leaving it in rebel hands would also jeopardize the poll
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Sunni Arab leaders who have called for a boycott of the Iraq elections say they intend to get involved in politics after the vote.
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Leaders of the United Iraqi Alliance urged disaffected Sunnis to join in the elections for a national assembly.
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Leading Sunni clerics declared on  Wednesday that any government emerging from Iraq's historic  election would lack legitimacy because many people had  boycotted a poll they said was tainted by a U.S.-led  occupation.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to end their uprising against U.S. and Iraqi forces while he considers forming a political movement, senior al-Sadr officials said Monday...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Sunni Muslim politicians in Iraq are asking the government to postpone the January national election. A former foreign minister said a delay could give political leaders time to persuade Sunni
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TERROR chief Osama Bin Laden has made a blatant bid to destroy Iraqâs elections. In a chilling audiotape broadcast yesterday, the al-Qaeda leader urged all Iraqi Muslims to boycott the poll on January 30.
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A leading group of Sunni clerics says any government elected after Sunday's poll will not reflect popular will.
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A tape attributed to Osama Bin Laden urges Iraqis to boycott elections scheduled for 30 January.
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November 23, 2004 -- BAGHDAD - Gunmen assassinated two influential Sunni clerics who called for a boycott of national elections, soon after Iraqi officials announced the balloting would be held Jan. 30 in spite of rising violence in the country.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim parties and the religious leadership headed by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani yesterday rejected a demand by other communities for a delay in nationwide elections scheduled for Jan. 30, in an escalating dispute that magnifies the country's ethnic and sectarian fault lines.
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Despite relentless violence Iraqi main Shiite Muslim parties have rejected demands of secular poiticians and Sunni Moslems to postpone the poll and called on Saturday for elections to go ahead on Jan. 30 as scheduled.
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A powerful group of Sunni Muslim clerics threatened Sunday to call a boycott of Iraqi elections planned for January if US forces launch a widely expected full-scale assault on rebel-held Falluja.