U.S.officials are concerned such a prolonged political process will create an opening for al-Qaida to try to foment ethnic strife, just as tens of thousands of U.S.troops are scheduled to be leaving Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

Richard Holbrooke, in a BBC interview, said a drawn-out process would benefit the Taliban and al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

The commission's special representative, Hamziya al Husseini says voter turnout in the three Kurdish provinces was impressive, and that the voting process went smoothly.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

So Al changed the process to an integrated, iterative approach utilizing many of the same concepts that Frank Lloyed Wright used in his organic design approach.

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While Al-Qahtani and Al-Hamid have tried to file complaints in court, those efforts went nowhere because the court system did not process them, Al-Qahtani said.

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France is also in the process of requesting al-Senussi's extradition from Mauritania, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said.

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