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register to vote at home
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW CARROLLTON, Md. -
Iraqis from the Washington area
and surrounding states registered
Monday to cast absentee ballots in
their native country’s national elec
tions at the end of the month.
By midmoming, more than 100
people had gone to the registration
center at a hotel about 15 miles out
side of Washington, D.C. After pro
viding evidence of Iraqi nationality,
they were added to registration lists
and given a receipt to present when
they return to vote next week.
Yadullah Nasrullah, 71, left
Baghdad 11 years ago with his fam
ily. The Kurd, who is from Clifton,
Va., said the election is critical for
the country as a sign that Saddam
Hussein’s dictatorship is over.
“We will be entering anew era
from dictatorship to freedom.
Every Iraqi will have the right to say
what is on their mind,” he said.
The poling site at a Ramada Inn
next to the Capital Beltway is the
only place for Iraqis living in the
Northeast and Mid-Atlantic to
vote. There are four other polling
WMD report will speculate
about smuggled armaments
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
final U.S. intelligence report on
weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq is expected to address whether
the banned armaments may have
been smuggled out of the country
before the war started.
Top Bush administration offi
cials have speculated publicly that
chemical, biological or radiological
weapons may have been smuggled
out, and the question is one of the
unresolved issues on WMD. The
report is due next month.
Intelligence and congressional
officials say they have not seen any
information indicating that WMD
or significant amounts of compo
nents and equipment were trans
ferred from Iraq to neighboring
Syria, Jordan or elsewhere.
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Chicago and Nashville.
Officials from the International
Center for Migration, which is
running the overseas voting for
the Iraqi government, predict that
roughly 22,000 Iraqis will vote at
the Washington location. Busloads
were expected to arrive over the
next several days from Boston,
Philadelphia and New York.
Security was tight. Those regis
tering had to pass through a metal
detector to get in. Prince George’s
County officials said local and state
police were working with the ATF,
FBI and Department of Homeland
Security.
Once inside the hotel’s confer
ence center, people registering
were sent to one of 15 stations.
There they had to provide evidence
of their nationality, either with
Iraqi identity cards, passports or
any other documents that showed
their background.
In order to vote, a person has
to either have been born in Iraq,
hold citizenship or prove that their
father was Iraqi. American citizens
The administration acknowl
edged last week that the search for
banned weapons is largely over. The
Iraq Survey Group’s chief, Charles
Duelfer, is expected to submit the
final installments of his report in
February. A small number of the
organization’s experts will remain
on the job.
But officials familiar with the
search say U.S. authorities have
found no evidence that former
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
transferred WMD or related equip
ment out of Iraq.
A special adviser to the CIA
director, Duelfer declined an inter
view request through an agency
spokesman. In his last public state
ments, he told a Senate panel last
October that it remained unclear
whether banned weapons could
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are allowed to vote.
Roger Bryant, the head of coun
try for the Iraqi elections in the
United States, said that nationwide
there are about 240,000 Iraqis eli
gible to vote. “The right to elect and
be elected for Iraqis everywhere is
indeed a historic occasion.”
Many who came Monday said
they had fled repression and vio
lence in Iraq. Some had lost rela
tives; others had been imprisoned
themselves.
Abdul Al-Haddad, 67, drove six
hours from Raleigh with his fam
ily to register. He spent 13 years in
prison in Iraq, only, he says, because
he was falsely accused of being
Iranian. Speaking Arabic, with his
son translating, Al-Haddad said it
was his duty to vote. “I feel I am
responsible for my country, to build
a free Iraq.”
Nazar Mohammadali, 22, of
Richmond, Va., came with his par
ents and siblings. His mother Afaf
Alhariri, 41, said 18 of her fam
ily members, including five of her
brothers, were killed by Hussein’s
regime.
have been moved from Iraq.
“What I can tell you is that I
believe we know a lot of materials
left Iraq and went to Syria,” he said.
“But whether in fact in any of these
trucks there was WMD-related
materials, I cannot say.”
Last week, a congressional official,
speaking on condition of anonym
ity, said suggestions that weapons
or components were sent from Iraq
were based on speculation stemming
from uncorroborated information.
President Bush and top-raking
officials in his administration used
the existence of WMD in Iraq as
the main justification for the March
2003 invasion, and throughout
much of last year the White House
continued to raise the possibility
the weapons were transferred to
another country.
Districts enact high school reforms
BY BRIANNA BISHOP
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
While the debate over block
scheduling has been resolved, other
aspects of reform in local high
schools continue to be addressed.
On Dec. 16, the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro Board of Education
passed anew schedule for the dis
trict’s two high schools.
The approved seven-period
hybrid schedule consists of seven
50-minute periods, some of which
could be combined to 100-minute
periods lasting for either a semes
ter or the entire school year.
“The seven-period hybrid
schedule isn’t a pure block,” board
Chairwoman Lisa Stuckey said,
referring to a previous option pro
posed by the board that met with
much controversy.
Plans call for the new schedule to
be implemented in the fall 0f2006.
“Work will be done between now
and the fall of 2006," Stuckey said.
She said this time will allow stu
dents and teachers to understand
how the new schedule will work.
For example, teachers can
receive training on teaching for a
100-minute block, Stuckey said.
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She added that the district’s
administrative staff will now be
looking over the schedule.
Block scheduling is not the only
reform under discussion for the
district’s two high schools.
The middle college program, a
collaborative effort between a few
local school districts, is aimed at
housing a high school for juniors
and seniors at Durham Technical
Community College.
“For some students it creates a
sense of independence,” said Neil
Pedersen, city schools’ superin
tendent, adding that the program
eventually will include 200 stu
dents, 100 from each grade level.
The middle college initiative
is up for discussion at the board’s
Thursday meeting.
“In the past, the board has indi
cated support for moving forward
with (middle college),” Stuckey said.
The Orange County Board of
Education agreed to participate in
the program on Jan. 3.
Another area of reform that
might soon be addressed is the
establishment of academies within
the district’s high schools.
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one specific area of study.
Pedersen said the performing
arts and science and technology are
some of the subjects that have been
discussed for potential academies.
Some of the local reform effort
stems from state initiatives.
“The state is defining some exit
criteria for seniors,” Pedersen said.
These ideas include requiring all
seniors to pass core end-of-course
tests, as well as implementing a
senior project —a final project
required of seniors for graduation.
The district does not have such a
requirement, Pedersen said.
“On a national scene (high
school reform is) a major issue,”
Pedersen said, adding that overall,
local high schools are high-achiev
ing, but that the district’s reforms
aim to make the high school expe
rience more meaningful.
More information on high
school reform can be viewed
on the city schools’ Web site at
http://www.chccs.kl2.nc.us/
HighSchoolßeform/indexl.asp.
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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