Well, it’s official. Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said today (BBC) that “some pockets” of Iraq will not participate in the elections on January 30th. Presumably it would be because of the security situation. He said the pockets “are not large”… but until we learn exactly who will and will not be voting we can’t …
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UPDATE 2: Another newly discovered Iraqi blog called “neurotic Iraqi Wife”. This is a wife of a man who works in the Green Zone. And she has posted responses from her husband to questions pertaining to the upcoming elections. UPDATE 1: Adding to my Iraqi blogs on the side… I read this in one of …
Canada is taking the lead on setting up the Elections process for the January 30 elections. There are obviously a ton of challenges to overcome… but only some can be directly controlled by the elections officials. The CBC is reporting today on comments made by the head of Elections Canada, Jean-Pierre Kingsley after the conclusion …
