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| | News & Analysis: A Brief Guide to the Iraqi Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The bar does not, though, apply to either Ahmed Chalabi, a US appointee to the interim government who has been convicted (in his absence) of massive fraud, or Ayad Allawi, US-appointed interim prime minister, who was a covert CIA operative commanding bombings including a school bus and a cinema in Iraq during Saddam's rule. |
 | | US officials, mainly remaining anonymous, have made it abundantly clear that the elections are free only within the parameters set by the US government. |
 | | The US is prepared to 'tolerate' a limited form of theocracy, according to one. |
| electroniciraq.net /news/1836.shtml (2015 words) |
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