Al Gore emerges in Iraq as Chief Sunni vote counter

Mosul (October 12, 2005) – Al-Jazeera TV announced this morning that former US Vice President Al Gore was named the chief vote counter for the Sunni Islamic Party in the constitutional referendum this coming Saturday. Mr. Gore will assume the title “Grand Sheikh of the Sunni-Iraqi Electoral Numeristic Commission” and reside in a ten-story high mosque in downtown Mosul. Reportedly, Mr. Gore serves “pro-bono” but will have at his disposal an army of 2500 Arab lawyers provided by the well-known Damascus law firm Al-Ahram & Abizadeh & Salohah LLC. “No one in the world possesses the unique experiences in vote counting as I do,” said Mr. Gore in fluent Arabic in a short videophone interview with the Al Jazeera network. As a globally acknowledged and respected "constitutional scholar" on Iraq, Mr. Gore would help provide "desperately needed credibility" to this week referendum, said the president of the Al-Jazeera network.