Sunnis End Boycott

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More than 1,000 Sunni Arab clerics, political leaders and tribal heads ended their two-year boycott of politics in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq on Saturday, uniting in a Sunni bloc that they said would help draft the country’s new constitution and compete in elections.

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Can’t find the article now, but a couple days ago, I think in the Christian Science Monitor, a reporter remarked that it’s a sign of how divided the Sunnis are that one of the groups excluded from this meeting to engage the Sunnis in the political process, is the Sunni group the government has been dealing with to do just that. The article included a comment by one the conference organizers about how traitorous that group was.

Nonetheless, if the movement to become involved in the political process is coming from multiple Sunni factions, it can’t be a bad thing.
 
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