Iraq vote vowed as violence continues
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BAGHDAD -- Militants sawed off the heads of three hostages believed to be Iraqi Kurds in a grisly videotape that surfaced yesterday, hours after Iraq's prime minister said that January elections would be held on schedule and asserted that US and Iraqi troops were winning the fight against an increasingly bold insurgency.
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LONDON/BAGHDAD  - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi  said Sunday national elections will go ahead as planned in  January, despite a countrywide surge in violence targeting U.S.  forces and Iraqi troops and police.
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LONDON: Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said elections would go ahead as planned in January, despite continuing violence which on Thursday killed 41 people including 34 children.
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BAGHDAD -- Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vowed yesterday that Iraq would go ahead with national elections by January, even if rampant violence and insurgent activity make it impossible to open polls in such cities as Fallujah, which has been controlled for months by gangs and rebels.
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Iraq must push ahead with Jan. 30 elections despite relentless bloodshed, voter intimidation and attacks on electoral staff, the chief U.N. election official in the country said Sunday.
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A Sunni group that had called for a delay in voting quietly files its slate for balloting. â¢ Seven Iraqis were killed Thursday in clashes in Baghdad and the volatile city of Ramadi.
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An overwhelming majority of Iraqis continue to say they intend to vote on Jan. 30 even as insurgents press attacks aimed at rendering the elections a failure, according to a new public opinion survey.
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IRAQI Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is adamant January elections remain on track despite US warnings that violence could exclude some provinces.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Sunday elections would be held as planned in January despite a surge in violence across the country.
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BAGHDAD -- Insurgents who have vowed to disrupt Iraq's parliamentary elections unleashed attacks yesterday across Iraq, from the kidnapping of a Catholic archbishop and a car bombing at a police station in the north to mortar attacks on polling stations in Basra in the south. At least 18 people were killed.
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Washington -- Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi vowed to Congress on Thursday that his country will hold elections in January despite increasing insurgent violence, while President Bush and his Democratic challenger Sen.
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Insurgents exposed the vulnerability of Iraq's security forces again Sunday, killing at least 22 national guardsmen and their driver in a suicide bombing and 10 other people in separate attacks with elections just weeks away. Prominent Shiite leaders called for unity with Sunni Arabs wanting to delay the vote but insisted it be held despite the violence.
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Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vowed yesterday that Iraq would go ahead with national elections by January, even if rampant violence and insurgent activity
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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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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 -- Iraqis voted yesterday in historic national elections in unexpectedly large numbers, despite insurgent attacks on voters and polling stations that killed at least 35 people and injured at least 171. Nine attackers also died.
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BAGHDAD  - At least 21 people were killed in the latest in a renewed spree of attacks to hit Iraq , as a top UN official issued a stark warning that elections could not be held in the current climate of violence.