"The Iraqi Islamic Party's announcement of withdrawal in late December was considered a big blow to the elections because the party is popular among Sunni Arabs. But the party never removed its slate of candidates from the ballot. Mr. Abdul-Hameed said that if the slate won national assembly seats, he would not bar his candidates from taking them, as long as the candidates were not official party members"
NYT

Well that answers that question. Even if it's two months after I asked..Now the only thing holding Iraq back from joining the modern world are the terrorist, and they are losing the war for the harts and minds of the Iraqi people.