Iraq Official: Iraq Not Stable Enough for Elections

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Iraq Official: Iraq Not Stable Enough for Elections
Mon January 26, 2004 12:57 PM ET


By Andrew Marshall
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Security in Iraq may be too precarious to hold early elections, the country's interior minister said Monday, as the United Nations considered whether to send a team to see if a nationwide vote is possible.

Washington, which failed to win U.N. backing for the war in Iraq, now wants the world body to play a significant political role in the country.

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is expected to announce imminently whether he will send a team to Iraq to explore the feasibility of early elections to replace a U.S. plan to choose a government through regional caucuses.

U.N. security experts are already in Iraq assessing the situation which remains fragile as was highlighted by a series of weekend attacks that left six U.S. soldiers dead.

The U.S. military said it was still searching for three troops missing since Sunday in the northern city of Mosul.

In Tokyo, Japan ordered the dispatch of an army contingent that will help rebuild Iraq, hours after the Defense Ministry said a Jordanian driver was killed when his truck carrying a mobile home for Japanese troops was attacked west of Baghdad.

The attack took place Sunday, and officials in Tokyo said it did not appear to have been directed at Japan.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=QML0EL1WGMJJYCRBAE0CFFA?type=worldNews&storyID=4209861

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1. American official:

"Chimp not stable enough for elections" :evilgrin:

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2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=331897