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  • Iraq's Sunni President Says Polls Should Go Ahead

    12/01/2004 12:14:19 PM PST · by West Coast Conservative · 6 replies · 419+ views
    Reuters ^ | Wed Dec 1 | Luke Baker and Mussab al-Khairalla
    Iraq's president said on Wednesday that elections should go ahead next month as planned, distancing himself from other leading Sunni Arab politicians who are demanding the polls be postponed due to widespread unrest. Ghazi al-Yawar, a Sunni businessman and tribal elder who was appointed to the largely symbolic post of president in June, is the first prominent Sunni to reject calls for a delay. "We must go ahead with elections, from a legal and a moral point of view," Yawar told a news conference in Baghdad. Iraq's interim constitution, endorsed by the United Nations, says elections must be held by...