Iraqi leader won't abandon election bid

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BAGHDAD, Iraq --Iraq's Shiite prime minister declared Tuesday he will not be blackmailed into abandoning his bid for a second term, and the Kurdish president bowed to Shiite pressure to delay calling parliament into session until a deadlock is resolved over who should lead a unity government




http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/03/07/al_jazeera_airs_tape_of_3_hostages_in_iraq_1141726 181/

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BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 7 — Shiite officials said today that they may block a meeting of the new Parliament that the Iraqi president has called for on Sunday, further delaying the process of forming a full, four-year government.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/international/middleeast/08cnd-iraq.html?_r=1&oref=slogin