Article: Sunni Arabs in Fallujah prepare to participate in Iraq's coming referendum, elections

Sunni Arabs in Fallujah prepare to participate in Iraq's coming referendum, elections

FALLUJAH, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Sunni Arabs in the city of Fallujah, 50 km west of Baghdad, are preparing to participate in the coming constitution referendum and the then general elections next January, a government spokesperson said on Thursday.

All indications showed that there is high percentage of people in the regions that boycotted the last parliamentary elections are registering their names to participate in the coming October referendum and the general elections next January, Laith Kubba told the press.

In Fallujah, considered one of the major hotbed of Iraqi insurgency, clerics of mosques called ...

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