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From: James Calladine	9/27/2004 8:41:55 PM
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Jordan king doubts Iraq elections Jordan's King Abdullah has said it will be impossible to hold fair elections in Iraq in the current state of chaos. He told the French newspaper Le Figaro that only extremists would gain if the elections went ahead in January without the security situation improving. Correspondents say these were remarkably frank comments from a man Washington regards as one of its key allies in the Middle East. US and interim Iraqi leaders both insist that elections will go ahead. However, last week US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told senators it might not be possible to conduct voting in some places targeted by militants. King Abdullah was speaking before talks in Paris on Tuesday with French President Jacques Chirac. 'Reconstitute army' He said he was worried that partial elections excluding troubled areas such as Fallujah could isolate Sunni Arab Iraqis and create deeper divisions within the country. "It seems impossible to me to organise indisputable elections in the chaos we see today," the king said. "Only if the situation improved could an election be organised on schedule." King Abdullah also urged the Iraqi authorities to re-recruit middle-ranking officers of the old Iraqi army under Saddam Hussein and provide longer training for new troops. "The faster we reconstitute the old army, the better the new one will be," he said. King Abdullah is in Paris for an exchange of views on the situation in Iraq, which the French government regards as extremely worrying. On Monday, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said that France was willing to support a US proposal for an international conference on Iraq, but only if the issue of a US withdrawal was on the agenda and if representatives of the armed opposition were allowed to take part. Story from BBC NEWS: news.bbc.co.uk Published: 2004/09/27 23:17:50 GMT

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