US general warns over Iraq poll
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Violence in Mosul is damaging efforts to hold elections in the city, the US commander in north Iraq tells the BBC.
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US President George W Bush warns the coming months in Iraq will be critical to the success of US strategy.
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The US Secretary of State warns of more violence in Iraq as elections approach, after a new suicide attack.
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The United States will boost its forces in Iraq to a record number of 150,000 in coming weeks because inexperienced Iraqi troops cannot ensure security for next month's national elections, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said Saturday.
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BAGHDAD -- The top American military commander for the Middle East has warned Iraq's prime minister that the Iraqi government needs to make tangible political progress by next month to counter the growing tide of opposition to the war in Congress.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq remains on course to hold landmark elections in January, but violence could force authorities to exclude hot spots such as the western city of Fallujah from voting, a top US general said yesterday.
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The top American general in Iraq said   on Wednesday he foresaw Iraqi forces assuming control of the   country's security within 12 to 18 months with "very little"   support from U.S.-led forces.
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WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell sees the situation in Iraq "getting worse" as planned elections approach, and the top U.S. military commander for Iraq says he expects more violence ahead...
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U.S. and Iraqi commanders said on Saturday there had been a remarkable improvement in the country's security over the past year, but the top American general also warned that the gains could be reversed.
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A US general in Iraq says voting in the former insurgent strongholds of Falluja and Ramadi will go ahead.
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The commanding general of US forces fighting in the northern Iraqi city of Tall Afar said Saturday that he believed the insurgency would be defeated within a week, allowing
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As sectarian violence continues, the US military cautions that results of its Baghdad troop 'surge' will take time.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned the United States, Britain and Iraq that an assault on Falluja risked further alienating the Iraqi people and undermining planned January elections.
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The new commander of U.S. troops in Iraq has warned that military force alone will not be enough to quell the country's violent insurgency.
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BAGHDAD -- US Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld told US troops in Iraq yesterday that they face a ''determined and vicious enemy" that is likely to strike again and again in the run-up to next month's elections.
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A retired US army general begins an assessment of security in Iraq at the request of the Pentagon.
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Violence in Iraq could worsen after this weekend's elections because insurgents may exploit the uncertain period while polling results are certified and the government assembled, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday.