Sunni Party Pulls Out of Iraq Vote As Doubts Grow
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The largest political party representing Iraq &#39;s Sunni Muslim minority announced Monday that it would drop out of the Jan. 30 election, dealing
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Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc said on Friday it was suspending its participation in cabinet because of legal steps being taken against one of its ministers, deepening the sectarian gulf between the country's politicians.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 15 -- The followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will withdraw from Iraq's leading political alliance, a spokesman for the group said Saturday.
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BAGHDAD.âThe main Iraqi Sunni political grouping, the moderate Iraqi Islamic party (IIP), today withdrew its list of candidates for the January 30 elections, on a day once again full of violence in which 13 people died in an attack in Baghdad, DPA
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Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc has ended its boycott of the Shi'ite-dominated parliament, officials said on Thursday, in a positive sign for the country's faltering attempts at national reconciliation.
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hours before the most prominent Sunni party withdrew from the historic poll. party set up in exile in Iran to oppose
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Religious and political leaders gather at the Umm al-Qura Sunni Muslim mosque outside Baghdad, where clerics called for their followers to boycott Iraq&#39;s January elections.
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The selection of Iraq's interim national assembly, envisioned as an introductory exercise in legislative democracy, devolved into bitter feuding Wednesday as a slate of independent candidates withdrew from the contest.
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Iraq&#39;s largest group of Sunni Muslim clerics on Wednesday ordered followers to boycott January&#39;s parliamentary elections if US forces don&#39;t break off their military campaign in the flash-point city of Fallujah.
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The US-led offensive in Fallujah touched off political turmoil Tuesday as the country&#39;s most influential Sunni political group announced its withdrawal from the government
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Embattled Sunni Muslims in Iraq may sit out the vote
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BAGHDAD -- The interim Iraqi government brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election yesterday. And a spokesman for the majority Shiite Muslim community called the date &quot;non-negotiable.
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BAGHDAD -- A boycott by several political groups caused the legislature yesterday to put off a rancorous debate again on a federalism bill that Sunni Arabs say may split Iraq apart and that may fuel sectarian bloodshed.
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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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WASHINGTON -- Leaders of Iraq's religious parties have emerged as the country's most popular politicians and would win the largest share of votes if an election were held today, while the US-backed government of interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is losing serious ground, according to a US-financed poll by the International Republican Institute.
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BAGHDAD, June 29 -- Members of the leading Sunni coalition in the Iraqi government said Friday that six of its ministers would withdraw from the Cabinet because of criminal accusations against one minister and their sense of alienation within the Shiite-dominated government.
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Iraq&#39;s electoral commission is considering setting aside seats in the country&#39;s national assembly for Sunni Arab politicians and