Sunnis see fraud, call for new election

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http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/12/21/sunnis_see_fraud_call_for_new_election/

Secular parties also question victory of Shi'ites

By Doug Struck, Washington Post | December 21, 2005

BAGHDAD -- Sunni and secular political parties angrily asserted yesterday that Iraq's national election was rigged, threatening to leave in shambles the delicate plan to bring the country's wary factions together in a new government.

Faced with an emerging strong victory by the religious Shi'ite group that has close ties to Iran, the minority Sunnis demanded a new election and hinted that the violence of the insurgency would be accelerated by the suspicions of fraud.

''What would we tell those whom we indirectly convinced to stop the attacks during the election period?" demanded Adnan Dulaimi, a chief of the main Sunni coalition. ''What would we tell those people who wanted to boycott and we convinced them to participate?"

The preliminary results, he said, are ''not in the interest of stability of the country."...



This Is American “Democracy”: Iraqis Complain Of Election Fraud

http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=105518&list=/home.php

Dec 21, 2005
By Omar al-Faris, JUS

It should come as no surprise that Iraqis are complaining of “election” fraud considering this is a business George Bush knows intimately, having risen to power on a fixed election and this time, the scam is intended to divide Iraq as the American agenda calls for.

According to reports from AP, some Sunni Arabs and a secular party charge that the so-called parliamentary elections were riddled with fraud, and have demanded an inquiry into preliminary results that show the Shiite religious bloc with a proportional larger than expected lead.

While Bush pitched a “unified” Iraq in his many speeches last week, the hostile climate that now exists threatens to divide the entire country. Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the Sunni Arab alliance the Iraqi Accordance Front, listed several complaints, including voting centers failing to open, shortages in election materials and reports of multiple voting.

“There are many violations and there is forgery,” al-Dulaimi told The Associated Press. Electoral commission official Farid Ayar said he has received more than 1,000 formal complaints, 20 of which were serious, or “red.” He said he did not expect the complaints would change the overall result, which is to be announced in January. A secular coalition charged that the election commission was a tool of the religious Shiite-dominated government...

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Americans cry fraud, prove it and are told nah nah boo boo. nt.

[Zynx]

2. This is very significant. Kicked and reccomended.

[acmavm]

3. Yes it's important. But who else besides the people here give a damn?

Ma and Pa Merica have other things to worry about, like the outrage they should express if someone says Happy Holidays rather than Merry Christmas.

[MadisonProgressive]

4. Can civil war be far away now?

[HuffleClaw]

5. hahahaha. and the hits just keep on coming!

and what will bush do about it? (other than claiming iranian interference) he's been proclaiming a great 'victory for freedom' thus far.

[hootinholler]

6. He said he did not expect the complaints would change the overall result

JEEBUS! where have we heard that before? Oh that's right, Ohio and Floriduh.

-Hoot