"Independence landslide in Iraq Kurd poll: organizers
06/02/2005 AFP
ARBIL, Iraq, Feb 6 (AFP) - 11h57 - An informal referendum on Kurdish independence conducted alongside last month�s historic Iraqi election drew nearly 99 percent support on a turnout of more than 80 percent, organizers said.
A total of 1,973,412 people, or 98.7 percent of respondents, backed secession in the poll, which has no legal weight, said Asso Kassem of the pro-independence Movement for a Referendum in Kurdistan, the group that organized the exercise. "
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