A rich businessman with tribal ties in western Iraq, Saad al-Janabi, is running on an anti-occupation platform that seems designed to win votes from sympathisers of the insurgents.An unSunni outlookSo Mr Allawi, the Kurds and the Alliance look likely to split the lion's share of seats.
The occupation also saw a platform lowered into the chimney flue, one of the few places at 300ft above the Trent valley sheltered from the wind.
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The occupation is not just a platform showing what we have done, but to create something new," she adds.
She said her job there, serving food to American troops, was more promising than her previous occupation, cooking on an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Obama told fund-raising audiences that it was entirely possible to support Israel, even passionately, without endorsing the platform of Likud and the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.
Talk is rife of a "diplomatic intifada" involving accession by the state of Palestine (recognised by the UN general assembly) to bodies such as the international criminal court – a platform for legal moves against the occupation.
Such platforms would allow flexible forms of occupation.
Israel has voiced particular concern about membership in the criminal court, which could give Palestinians a platform to bring charges over Israel's occupation of the West Bank and its settlements there.
The new Spanish government, which was elected in large part on a platform of opposition to participation in the Iraqi occupation, announced Sunday that Spanish forces would be called home soon.
