CAIRO,
June 29 (IslamOnline.net) – A sweeping majority of Iraqis, 80
percent, want the US-led forces to keep to their bases outside towns
and make their presence less visible, according to a recent survey by
an accredited Iraqi polling center.
Interviewing
people in Baghdad and six other cities, the Iraq Centre for Research
and Strategic Studies found that 41 percent of Iraqis would feel safer
if foreign troops leave their oil-rich country, reported the Guardian
on Tuesday, June 29.
The
survey also indicated that Iraqi parties that pressed for the end of
the US-led occupation and the withdrawal of the foreign troops from
Iraq would have a head start in the upcoming elections, scheduled for
January 31.
Forty-three
per cent of those polled said they would vote for a party which called
for foreign forces to leave while a only 16 percent said they would
support a party which wanted foreign forces to stay until Iraq's army
and police were trained.
At
least 71% of nearly 3,500 Iraqis of every religious and ethnic group
see the U.S.-led forces as "
