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...Adnan Pachachi's Iraqi Independent Democrats, Nasser Chaderchi's National Democratic Party and Wamid Nadhmi's Arab Nationalist Movement are all maneuvering to form electoral alliances with Shi'ite and Kurdish parties rather than appeal to Sunni voters. The highest-ranking Sunni in the U.S.-backed interim government, President Ghazi al-Yawer, hasn't even formed a party of his own. He too is expected to join a broad-based coalition...
...course, it has reiterated its call for a boycott of the January election. Others, like UN Secretary General Kofi Annan have warned that if the assault of Fallujah creates a backlash that keeps Sunnis away from the polls, then the operation will have been self-defeating. Even acting president Ghazi al-Yawer, the most senior Sunni figure in Allawi's government, has publicly warned that a bloody showdown would play into the hands of the insurgency, adding that "the way the Coalition is handling the crisis is wrong." But on Monday, Allawi emphasized that he'd received Yawer's blessing...
...rebels to put down their weapons. But just as a peace deal looked imminent, Darfur exploded. Rather than risk a collapse of the deal in the south, the Administration--and much of the international community--chose to avoid the issue. "They didn't want to know about Darfur," charges Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani, a friend and adviser to President al-Bashir and then Khartoum's lead negotiator in the talks. "They kept saying, 'Please get rid of this problem...
...More plausible, perhaps, is the suggestion on Wednesday by acting president Ghazi al-Yawer that the poll would go ahead unless the United Nations suggested it be canceled - and UN secretary general Kofi Annan on Wednesday said bluntly that credible elections could not be held on the basis of current conditions...
...Blood draws more blood, and I don't believe in that at all. We have to be strong enough to forgive." GHAZI AJIL AL-YAWAR, Iraq's interim President, justifying an amnesty program for some Iraqi insurgents...