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January 7, 2005
Neighbors call on Iraqis to vote
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesFirst of all , Iran does seem to be interfering in the Iraqi elections, so much so that even Iranian intelligence agents have been caught in Iraq and were associated with suicide attacks, particularly car bombings (no, not themselves - they were interested in getting others to blow themselves up while killing innocents). Now the Arabs are worried that the poor Sunni Muslims that have been busy condoning suicide attacks and looking the other way when so many non-Sunnis were being killed, not to mention the feeding, housing, and equiping of terrorists, might not vote or be able to vote. It almost sounds like the Arabs have picked up on the American Democratic party's 'disenfranchisement scheme as an excuse for just plain old vanilla not voting.
BBC News UK/Middle East Jan 7
Foreign ministers from Iraq's neighbours have called on all Iraqis to take part in the election scheduled for the end of this month.
The call is aimed at Sunni Muslims who have threatened to boycott the poll.
Ministers also pledged not to interfere in Iraq's internal affairs at a meeting in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
Iran sent a low-level delegation after Jordan's King Abdullah said Iran was trying to create a Shia Muslim zone of influence from Iraq to Lebanon.
Iraq's Arab neighbours are concerned the Sunni community will be sidelined in any new dispensation.
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Posted by Hyscience at January 7, 2005 7:19 AM
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