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Baghdad Blackout Caused by Sabotage
(Guardian Unlimited, October 14, 2005)
Insurgents sabotaged power lines to the capital Friday evening, knocking out electricity across the greater Baghdad area and plunging it into darkness on the eve of the country's key vote on a new constitution. . . . Mahmoud al-Saaedi, an Electricity Ministry spokesman, said power lines were sabotaged between the northern towns of Kirkuk and Beiji leading to the Baghdad region. . . . He did not specify how insurgents damaged the lines, but militants in the past have used bombs to hit infrastructure. . . . Iraqi and U.S. forces have clamped down with intensive security measures to prevent insurgent attacks on voters Saturday. . . .

Iraq Sunni party offices attacked
(BBC NEWS, October 14, 2005)
Three offices of an Iraqi Sunni party which dropped its opposition to the new constitution have been attacked, a day before a referendum on the text. . . . In Baghdad, a bomb exploded outside the office of the Iraqi Islamic Party. . . . Gunmen set fire to the party's office in the western city of Falluja, and ransacked its office in Baiji, north of Baghdad. No injuries were reported. . . . Many Sunni parties oppose the text, and have called on Iraqis to boycott the poll or vote "No". . . . Iraqi army Maj Salman Abdul Yahid said the attack on the Islamic Party offices "was expected because of its new stand toward the referendum". . . . Alaa Makki, a senior party official, condemned the Baghdad attack, saying the party would "use the political process to fight terrorism and promote stability in Iraq", the Associated Press news agency reported. . . . Earlier this week, the Islamic Party said it would encourage Sunnis to support the constitution after Shia and Kurdish political leaders agreed to consider further revisions after elections in December. . . . Sunni leaders fear the current proposals may lead the country to split, with a Kurdish north and Shia south, depriving Sunni Arabs of access to the country's oil resources. . . . The BBC's Richard Galpin in Baghdad says the controversy surrounding the draft constitution has made campaigning much more adversarial than expected. . . . It has been easier for the "Yes" camp who dominate government to get their message across on state-controlled media than for the Sunni minority, our correspondent adds. . . . If voters in three of Iraq's 18 provinces muster a two-thirds majority against the constitution, it will fail. . . . The Sunnis are dominant in four provinces and so therefore effectively hold a power of veto if they turn out in large numbers to vote against it.

posted by LoZo 2:14 PM