[Vision2020] Sunni Clerics Challenge Ballot

[Pat Kraut]

Wow! Look how much they have learned and how fast it happened. Impressive! Already an contested election! I understand that Iran is making trouble with the Sunnis in Iraq. The Iranians would love to keep the pot boiling in the middle east but there are lots of rumors that the people of Iran are restless. I think it should be the same there as it is here...you don't vote, you don't get to complain! I know it was dangerous but there were an lot of people who did it anyway. It is remarkable how many voted. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tbertruss at aol.com 
  To: pkraut at moscow.com ; vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:09 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Sunni Clerics Challenge Ballot



  All:

  Here is an "opposing" view of the recent Iraq election from inside Iraq.  "Opposing" in the sense of denying the legitimacy of the whole election:

  http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050202155109990003

  Because many Sunnis stayed away from the polls, influential Sunni clerics are challenging the legitimacy of the ballot, as well as the new government and the constitution that the National Assembly is to create.

  ''We cannot participate in the drafting of a constitution written under military occupation,'' said Mohammed Bashar al-Feidhi, a spokesman for the Sunni clerical Association of Muslim Scholars.

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  V2020 Post by Ted Moffett






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