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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></DIV>
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<A title=Tbertruss@aol.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pkraut@moscow.com
href="mailto:pkraut@moscow.com">pkraut@moscow.com</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:09
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Sunni Clerics
Challenge Ballot</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR>All:<BR><BR>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:<BR><BR><A
href="http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050202155109990003">http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050202155109990003</A><BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>''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.<BR><BR>-----------------------------------------<BR><BR>V2020 Post
by Ted Moffett<BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT>
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