“January 30 [2005] saw a sign of possibly brighter future. Over eight million Iraqi adults (more than half of the total eligible) went to the polling booths to vote in the first post-Saddam election of a parliament. The result was a victory for the two Shi’ite parties and the Kurdish independence. Sunni candidates gained very […]
1/30/2005
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary: ” “718. On 30 January, elections for the Transitional National Assembly and Provincial Assemblies took place across Iraq. Security arrangements involved 130,000 personnel from the Iraqi Security Forces, supported by 184,500 troops from the MNF-I. The JIC assessed that perhaps fewer than 10 percent […]
1/30/2005
In Iraq, after the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) disbanded on June 28, 2004, “the IIG [Iraqi Interim Government] governed Iraq until elections were held on January 30, 2005; thereafter, the Iraqi Transitional Government assumed authority.” – U.S. Dept. of State web information, Profile: Republic of Iraq, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State, […]
1/30/2005
In the January 30, 2005 election in Iraq, “While turnout was extremely heavy in the Kurdish north (about 85 percent) and the Shiite south (slightly more than 70 percent), relatively few Sunnis voted (probably less than a quarter of the total Sunni Arab population in Iraq) and in the areas most severely in the grip […]
1/30/2005
In Iraq, on January 30, 2005, “The actual elections went off quite successfully, in spite of a near-universal boycott in the majority Sunni areas of Iraq and the terrorist incidents that marred the process in parts of the country. About 8.5 million Iraqis cast their vote, nearly 60 per cent of the eligible voters. Iraqis […]
1/30/2005
Despite the threats of insurgent attacks, “on January 30, 2005, Iraqis turned out in large numbers to vote for candidates for the Iraqi National Assembly. Fifty-eight percent of the registered electorate voted (a turnout about twenty points higher than that for the congressional elections of 2002 in the United States).” – Stephen F. Hayes, Cheney, […]
1/30/2005
“The results [of Iraq’s first democratic election, held on January 30, 2005] mirrored turnout. A coalition of Shiite parties endorsed by Grand Ayatollah [Ali] al-Sistani won 48 percent of the vote. The two major Kurdish parties picked up a combined 26 percent, and a bloc led by interim prime minister Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite, […]
1/30/2005
“On January 30, 2005, 58 percent of the Iraqi electorate defied threats of violence to vote in the first elections since Saddam’s ouster.” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 327 […]
1/30/2005
Ibrahim al-Jaafari, “a conservative Shiite, had become prime minister after the first set of Iraqi elections in January [30] 2005 and had been renominated for the job after the most recent round of elections that December.” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 285 […]
1/30/2005
“On January 30, 2005, Stuart W. Bowen, the special inspector general appointed by the U.S. occupation authority, reported that almost $9 billion in Iraqi oil revenue, disbursed to the ministries, had gone missing. A subsequent Congressional inspection team reported in May 2006 that Task Force Shield [which had been set up to protect oil installations […]