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| | Elections May Be Over 15 Months Away |
 | | A Kurdish leader, Jalal Talabani, has suggested a delay of seven or eight months. |
 | | Younadem Kana, an Assyrian Christian member of the council, said Bremer's estimate was based on the coalition's assessment of the security situation and that elections could be held much sooner. |
 | | However, Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish Sunni council member, said it would take at least a year to prepare for elections. |
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