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Via BBC News, which lately seems to be specializing in news of the weird, we learn this: MORE »

Sunni clerics and political party spokesmen may be encouraging their constituents to go to the polls tomorrow, but this has only redoubled the efforts of jihadists to murder and intimidate them, regardless of their democratic ambivalence or committed disdain for an American military presence in Iraq. The New York Times reports:

Sunni insurgents launched five attacks against the largest Sunni Arab political party on the eve of Iraq’s crucial referendum Friday, bombing and burning offices and the home of one of its leaders in retaliation after the group dropped its opposition to the draft constitution.

–MICHAEL WEISS

Continued after the jump.

Sunni Divide on Display a Day Before Iraq Vote [NYT]
In Iraqi Swing City, Hope vs. Defiance [WaPo]
Zawahiri Letter [English translation]

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