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Article: Sunnis open to Shiite pact; Iraqi Accordance Front would consider working with the now-governing United Iraqi Alliance.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- December 18, 2005
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Byline: ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Cars and trucks returned to Iraq's roads Saturday as authorities eased tight security imposed for the parliamentary election, and the main Sunni Arab alliance said it was open to forming a governing coalition with a religious Shiite bloc.
With Thursday's voting held peacefully, Iraqi officials also reopened border crossings, except on the frontier with Syria. They said the Syrian crossings would resume in a few days.
Few violent incidents were reported for a third day. In four shootings, attackers killed a former Iraqi air force officer, a member of a prominent Shiite party and two ...