Iraqi militant group threatens election

cnn (americas al jazeera) ^ | 11/18/04 | Jane Arraf, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Cal Perry and Kevin Flower

[pissant]

Thursday's threat came as the death toll for U.S. troops in Falluja climbed to 51 since American and Iraqi troops launched an offensive against insurgents there 11 days ago.

Meanwhile, insurgents fired a mortar round Thursday into the office of Nineveh's provincial governor in Mosul, the U.S. military said. U.S. and Iraqi security forces have stepped up their fight against the resistance in the northern city, in response to an insurgent offensive apparently timed to divert attention from the Falluja operation. (Full story)

The militant group, Ansar al-Sunna, said in a statement published on its Web site: "We ask all Muslims to respond to God's calling and avoid showing up at the election posts."

The group warned that voting sites would be targeted "because they are infidel posts."

Iraq's interim government plans to hold elections for a transitional parliament in January, and the offensive against insurgents in Falluja was meant to restore interim government control over that area ahead of the vote

[pissant]

More breathless "quagmire" reporting from CNN reporters embedded with the terrorists. Hopefully, they will have all the success of the Taleban at stopping the election.

[goalinestan]

Wow, who knew that the DNC could switch their operations to Iraq so quickly?

[Mister Baredog]

Every time I happen to see Jihadi Jane reporting from Iraq I just can't get over the strong feeling that she's rooting for the enemy, it comes through loud and clear to me, of course it is AL CNN, Saddam's old media outlet.

[PrtzlLogic]

This is no problem, the DNC is all set up to deal with this type of crisis. They've already announced a three-prong plan: P. Diddy will rush out there and promote his "Vote or Die" campaign in the Iraq ghettos; Springsteen will hold lame concerts to get the Iraqi baby-boomers involved; and Leonardo DiCaprio will appear on Al Jazeera imploring the Iraqi youth to "rock the vote"!

I'm sure there'll be every bit as effective as they were at turning out the vote for Kerry. So on second thought, maybe we should send someone else...