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Iraqi Leader Warns Of "Spectacular" Attacks
Jeremy L. Muncy
Staff Writer
2005-01-07
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Some fears were raised by a top US military official today that Iraqi insurgents may try to carry out "spectacular" attacks for the forth coming Iraqi election.
According to SignOnSanDiego.com:
"The comments by Air Force Brig. Gen. Erv Lessel echoed a warning by Iraq's prime minister the day before that insurgent violence would only increase ahead of the Jan. 30 election for a National Assembly.
Hours after Allawi spoke, a roadside bomb killed seven U.S. soldiers in northwest Baghdad on Thursday, deadliest attack on American forces since a suicide strike in Mosul 2½ weeks ago. Two Marines also were killed in western Iraq."
"Saddam's followers, who have intensely shed the blood of our people and army, are still in action clandestinely, allying with a bunch of criminals, murderers and terrorists who are the enemies of our people and our progress," Ayad Allawi, Iraq's interim leader, said during a ceremony to mark the national Army Day holiday.
During Friday prayers, Sheik Mahmoud Al-Somaidie of the Sunnis' Association of Muslim Scholars called for unity among Muslims but repeated Sunnis' demand that the vote be delayed.
"Brothers, be aware of those who using the elections issue to flare a sectarian war, there is only one country, only one Iraq, and we are all brothers in this country," he said. "Elections have to be an Iraqi demand not the demand of the foreign countries. For that reason, we have to be unified and agreed on one word to free Iraq from the occupation," said Sheik Mahmoud Al-Somaidie of the Sunnis' Association of Muslim Scholars.
The United States positively opposes the delay of the elections.
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Jeremy Muncy is the editor of http://www.SecurityProNews.com.
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