[Vision2020] Sunni Clerics Challenge Ballot

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

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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