Iraqi court disqualifies prominent Sunni candidates
you can vote but you cannot win? And I'm a tad suspicious of this line also from knight ridder "Knight Ridder has obtained a copy of the court ruling, which has yet to be circulated to the public." how do you get these rulings and why are you the disseminators of this information who the fook are you people? Who pays you to do this service? How wide spread will you make this news? Will you tout it as loudly as the election success stories were touted?
Iraqi court disqualifies prominent Sunni candidates
By Nancy A. Youssef and Huda Ahmed
Knight Ridder Newspapers
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi court has ruled that some of the most prominent Sunni Muslims who were elected to parliament last week won't be allowed to serve because officials suspect that they were high-ranking members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
Knight Ridder has obtained a copy of the court ruling, which has yet to be circulated to the public.
The ruling is likely to dampen Bush administration hopes that the election would bring more of the disaffected Sunni minority into Iraq's political process and undermine Sunni support for the insurgency. Instead, the decision is likely to stoke fears of widening sectarian divisions in a nation already in danger of descending into civil war.
Adil al-Lami, the chief electoral official of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, told Knight Ridder that he would honor the court's decision and that none of the accused Sunnis would appear on the final list of parliament members.
Iraqi court disqualifies prominent Sunni candidates
By Nancy A. Youssef and Huda Ahmed
Knight Ridder Newspapers
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi court has ruled that some of the most prominent Sunni Muslims who were elected to parliament last week won't be allowed to serve because officials suspect that they were high-ranking members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
Knight Ridder has obtained a copy of the court ruling, which has yet to be circulated to the public.
The ruling is likely to dampen Bush administration hopes that the election would bring more of the disaffected Sunni minority into Iraq's political process and undermine Sunni support for the insurgency. Instead, the decision is likely to stoke fears of widening sectarian divisions in a nation already in danger of descending into civil war.
Adil al-Lami, the chief electoral official of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, told Knight Ridder that he would honor the court's decision and that none of the accused Sunnis would appear on the final list of parliament members.
