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Voters too are frightened. Iraqi elder statesman Adnan Pachachi says many residents of big cities like Mosul, Ramadi and Samarra want to participate but are too scared to even register. He suspects that few in the Sunni minority will go to the polls--perhaps not even 10%--which could undermine the election's legitimacy. "Many people from Arab countries will say this is not a correct election," says Dr. Sa'ad Abdul al-Razzak of Pachachi's party. U.S. officials say they will urge Shi'ite leaders to reach out to Sunnis after the election to bring them into...
...political future. Clearly they don't, as a result of the insurgency, and the talk of finding formulae to accommodate the Sunnis if they stay away. Indeed, the calls for postponement of the elections by moderate Sunni elements such as acting President Yawer, and former U.S. favorite Adnan Pachachi - as well as wild allegations by such neighborhood leaders as Jordan's King Abdullah that one million Iranians have entered Iraq in order to vote - appear to be setting up Sunni Iraqis, and their regional allies, to question or reject the results...
...political process that is associated with the Sunnis, the Iraqi Islamic Party, is poorly organized and scorned by the clerics for having contributed two ministers to interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's government. The other prominent Sunnis likely to contest the elections represent secular parties of uncertain popularity. 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...
...Baghdad. But he can't escape questions about his political judgment--in particular the decision in late March to close the newspaper affiliated with the radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. At the time, Bremer said the paper was inciting anti-Americanism and endangering U.S. troops. Adnan Pachachi, then a Governing Council member, says that no one was consulted when Bremer decided to shut the paper down. In response, al-Sadr's loyalists staged a rolling revolt in Baghdad and across much of southern Iraq, locking down cities and in the process turning many previously neutral Iraqi Shi'ites...
...expressed relief that Iraq's top post would be filled by someone they could do business with, some Iraqis warned that Allawi's association with the CIA and the Governing Council may compromise his authority before he even takes office. "He'll have to handle this somehow," says Adnan Pachachi, a Sunni member of the Governing Council...