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- Monday, September 6 2004, 23:53:50 (CEST) from -  Windows XP -  Internet ExplorerWebsite: Website title: |
Top Stories - Los Angeles Times Violence May Force Iraq to Bypass Hotspots in Election Mon Sep 6, 7:55 AM ET Add Top Stories - Los Angeles Times to My Yahoo! By Patrick J. McDonnell Times Staff Writer BAGHDAD — Iraq (news - web sites) remains on course to hold landmark elections in January, but violence could force authorities to exclude hotspots such as the western city of Fallouja from voting, a top U.S. general said here Sunday. • Latimes.com home page • Subscribe to the Los Angeles Times AFP Slideshow: Iraq Latest headlines: · U.S. Tanks Pound Rebel-Held Iraqi Town - Witnesses Reuters - 15 minutes ago · Car Bomb Near Rebel Iraqi City Kills 7 U.S. Marines Reuters - 16 minutes ago · Ten killed in Fallujah blast, Iraq retracts Ibrahim arrest claim AFP - 21 minutes ago Special Coverage Lt. Gen. Thomas F. Metz, operations chief of more than 150,000 mostly U.S. troops, said in an interview that the "cancer" of anti-American militancy in places such as Fallouja would not derail national elections. A "contingency" plan, Metz said, is to bypass Fallouja — and perhaps other violent enclaves — and concentrate on ensuring electoral security in Baghdad and other population centers where hostility is lower. "We'd have elections before we let one place like Fallouja stop [national] elections," said Metz, the No. 2 U.S. military official in Iraq. "The rest of the country can go on about a process that heads right for an election." Still, Metz cautioned that the participation of Iraq's three largest cities — Baghdad, Mosul in the north and Basra in the south — was essential to any election. Assyrian Muslims..having refused to lay down and die...like when did they ever...are making the United States "rethink" elections in Iraq...it`s no victory..not in the usual sense...shattering Iraqi society and leaving it in ruins is the Bush strategy and it`s working too well...our peope are playing their parts..unfortunately...it was in the script..at least they`re behaving true to form... Metz's statements are among the strongest to date by U.S. or Iraqi officials, conceding that the security situation is so perilous that some areas may not be pacified in time for elections. Although bypassing some cities could allow officials to stick to their planned January timetable, doing so could detract from the election's credibility, foment discontent in Iraq and leave other countries reluctant to acknowledge any government chosen in the vote. Much of the heartland of central and western Iraq remains a hostile zone for U.S. and Iraqi forces because of a Sunni Muslim-led insurgency. ..I like that one...I attack your home..kill off your family and then say that I`m having trouble making "peace" because their mother is still fighting me! How`s that for logic and Reason too? --------------------- |
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