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...Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry to urge a postponement. But the flip-side of the coin may be equally dangerous: the consequences of not holding the election on schedule could add the prospect of massive Shiite unrest to the security challenge posed by multiple insurgencies, and leave the Allawi government in a legal and political limbo in which the basis of its tenure becomes increasingly open to question. More importantly, even, postponement would be hailed as an important victory by the insurgents, and give them the confidence and incentive to escalate their challenge...
...safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without him." IYAD ALLAWI, Prime Minister of Iraq, speaking at the White House about the war that drove Saddam Hussein from power...
...cooperating" with military proposals under study by the U.S. Central Command, a State Department official tells TIME, and more talks in Damascus will probably take place in a few weeks. Obtaining Syrian cooperation in stemming the insurgency in Iraq has been a priority for Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who will visit Washington this week and who held his own discussions with Assad on the matter over the summer...
...documents show that senior colleagues had warned him that Washington's postwar plans were inadequate, and that terrorism would likely increase after a war - something he did not tell the country at the time. Looking unusually defensive, Blair used a press conference with Iraq's interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, to plead for putting all that in the past. "Whatever the disagreements about the first conflict in Iraq to remove Saddam, this conflict now is the crucible in which the future of this global terrorism will be determined," he said. But with his standing damaged by the news from Baghdad...
...question of the Iraqi election will be settled only after Americans have held their own. And it is on that election that Allawi's visit may have made the greatest impact...