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...Decried Free Elections As Being Violation Of Islamic Law
*** Iraq's Al-Jaish Al-Islami, A 7-Div. Wahhabi Affiliate Of Bin Laden's Qaeda Working With Zarqawi's Group, Has Vowed To Hit Within USA In '05
*** Expect An Oil Price Shock Also During 2005
NICOSIA - There will be elections across the Middle East this year. The first were held in the Palestinian territories on Jan. 9 in which Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) was elected overwhelmingly as president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to succeed Yasser Arafat, who died on Nov. 11. There will be legislative elections in Iraq on Jan. 30 - if these are not postponed in view of mounting violence - plus municipal elections in Saudi Arabia in February, presidential elections in Iran in June, Egypt's one-candidate referendum for President Mubarak's fifth term till 2011 and parliamentary elections in November. There will be elections in Lebanon and Yemen. While their outcomes will cause little or no change to the status quo in the Middle East before end-2005, they will pave the way for a huge change thereafter in view of the following developments:
The Wahhabi religious order in Saudi Arabia, like other such Salafi establishments in the Sunni world of Islam, has begun to show its rage against the notion of people freely...
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