Captain Ed at Captain’s Quarters recieved an email from a family inside of Iraq. The email contains translated plans on how to disrupt the Januay 30 elections. Plans include the following:

1. Work with all your capabilities to prevent the continuation of participation by any members of the election committees [the people who administer the elections process]. This is done through a number of ways, including persuasion, threats, kidnapping, and other methods of [applying] pressure. Make sure that once they agree to withdraw from the election committee, their withdrawal is not announced except during critical and narrow timeframe [so that] the government cannot replace them with other [members]. In other words, just before the elections, their withdrawal should be announced by the election administration. This will make it extremely difficult to find trained people to manage the elections in such a short period of time.

2. It is known that election committee [lists] are published prior to voting – one, two or a few days before the date of the elections — and you must attack these offices to seize all documents, voter lists, and the [voting] boxes. Destroy all election-related supplies a day or two before the voting because it will be difficult to replace these supplies just before the elections.

3. The attack on the elections office [takes place] on the day of voting, 30 January — beginning in the morning and not ending until closing time — to prevent participation by any citizen in these elections. The attacks also entail seizing all documents and supplies belonging to the elections centers under attack.

4. The elections offices which the mujahidin are not able to reach a day or two before the elections, or even on the day of voting, are to be attacked when the votes are sorted. If the ballots are sorted in another place, the mujahidin should try to attack when the boxes of ballots are being transported. They should also attack the locations where the votes are counted because this process takes a long time. Boxes and ballots should be seized because no election can succeed if votes are missing.

The foundation of the entire elections process is the ballot, and if the ballot is damaged, lost, or stolen, then the elections become a failure. The voter will object since the disappearance of ballots invalidates results.

Therefore, you have an opportunity which has already begun, and that is to move against the election committees, the administrators of the management of these elections. Therefore [this must happen] before the elections, during the distribution of these ballots to the centers along with all of the elections documents a few days prior to the elections. [This opportunity] ends in the evening of — or the day after — the elections, depending on the length of the vote sorting processes.

Once the elections supplies, including the boxes full of ballots, have been seized, you must hurry to publish this in the media to show the world that the elections which took place were a failure. In order to prevent them from lying and falsifying [this information], identify the location of each seized box and documents.

And know that by disrupting the elections process, you disrupted Bush’s last endeavor in Iraq after the failure of all his previous operations.

I find the last part (in bold) most telling. It shows how terrorists view the media, as a tool to push their own endeavors though naturally we all should have known this. Interestingly, Dean Esmay recently asked how long after the election will the New York Times declare it fraudulent. While I beleive the question posed by Esmay to be after the fact as the NYT and much of the MSM have already pounded away at the elections, with the translated instructions on how to disrupt the elections by using the media as a tool to declare them fraudulent, one has to continue to mention the MSM’s even lackadaisical support for terrorist groups.

Of course no media outlet worthy of being read, seen or heard would actually support terroristic agendas, however we have seen this time and time again where some media outlets push their own political agendas while at the same time helping out the terrorists even though that is not their intention. It is a sickening situation that seemed to have started at the Berlin Olympics.

The plans, if we can believe this translation from an arab forum where terrorists and terrorist sympathisers gather, seem to be quite sophisticated. It is my hope the people of Iraq defeat their true enemy, the people who are trying to deny them their freedom.

Update:
As this story enrages me that so few want to deny freedom to so many, I have given more thought to the elections. What will make the Iraqi elections valid in the eyes of not just Iraqis, but interested people everywhere?

First the Iraqis:
There will of course be some Iraqis, namely the Sunnis, who view the elections as fraudulent no matter what the outcome will be. It is all but predetermined the Sunnis will have a minority role to play in the new government based upon this group being a minority in Iraq. Couple this with their calls for boycotts to the election and we have even less Sunnis seeing the election as legitimate. Remember, the Sunnis were in complete control under Saddam Hussein and now they will not be.

When Democracy is brought to a land that has never seen it before, there are those who will not believe the results and also come up with wild conspiracy theories. Heck, we saw conspiracy theories float around the United States where the vast majority of people grew up in a Democratic insitution. We saw this exact same circumstance happen in Afghanistan and it will surely happen in Iraq.

For most Iraqis, the results of the election will be ’said and done;’ the results seen as legitimate. According to a recent poll, a startling 80 percent of Iraqis said they plan on voting. Eighty percent naturally is a majority therefore a majority of Iraqis will vote. It is reasonable to assume 90 percent of the 80 percent (72 percent of total voter eligible Iraqis) of people that vote will view the election as valid.

Rest of the World:
Let’s face it. This is where the harshest criticism will come from. No matter what the results are, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia (though not publically), France, Russia and China will almost assuredly view the elections as corrupt. Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia must continue to lash out about Democracy in order to try to keep their own governments affloat.

Russia feels spurned by the U.S. support of newly elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and has recently been very vocal concerning the elections in Iraq. Calling the Iraqi election fraudulent will be seen as retribution for Ukraine. China has been spurned by the U.S. insisting Israel stop selling military technology and equipment to China. China will also declare the election fraudulent as retribution.

Jaques Chirac is no friend to the United States. He strongly opposed the war, sat in office while France disregarded several UN resolutions not to sell arms to Iraq and would like nothing more than to be able to “prove” the war in Iraq was in fact the wrong choice to make. France will most likely be very vocal on January 30 and the weeks following the election saying the United States forced the results upon the Iraqis.

It would be a catestrophic failure not to mention the United Nations. The UN will declare the election invalid as they have hinted at numerous times because they did not fully administer the elections. While the UN praises the fact they have sent election monitors, in reality they have only sent 25 into a country with over 25 million people.

My question to my readers is thus: What will constitute a legitimate election in Iraq? For me it is the acceptance by only the Iraqi people.

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