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06-10-2005, 04:05 PM
Iraq Sunnis reject compromise on constitution (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420517/posts)
<SMALL>Yahoo News ^ (http://www.freerepublic.com/^http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050610/wl_nm/iraq_dc) | 10 June 2005 | Omar Anwar</SMALL>
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Political leaders of Iraq's Sunni minority rejected a compromise offer on giving them more say in the drafting of a constitution on Friday.
Scattered violence, including the discovery of 21 victims of execution-style killings and a gun attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad, highlighted the dangers of growing friction among Iraq's religious and ethnic communities.
The identities of the dead found at two spots near the Syrian border were unclear. But there were fears for the lives of 20 or more soldiers from the mainly Shi'ite south who were kidnapped nearby, apparently by Sunni al Qaeda fighters.
The U.S. military said five Marines were killed in western Iraq on Thursday when a roadside bomb blast hit their vehicle, in one of the deadliest such attacks against U.S. troops since the invasion more than two years ago. No details were given. It was not clear how the Shi'ite-dominated National Assembly and government would react to the rejection by the main Sunni political group of an offer of more seats on the parliamentary committee charged with drafting a constitution by Aug. 15.
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<SMALL>Yahoo News ^ (http://www.freerepublic.com/^http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050610/wl_nm/iraq_dc) | 10 June 2005 | Omar Anwar</SMALL>
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Political leaders of Iraq's Sunni minority rejected a compromise offer on giving them more say in the drafting of a constitution on Friday.
Scattered violence, including the discovery of 21 victims of execution-style killings and a gun attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad, highlighted the dangers of growing friction among Iraq's religious and ethnic communities.
The identities of the dead found at two spots near the Syrian border were unclear. But there were fears for the lives of 20 or more soldiers from the mainly Shi'ite south who were kidnapped nearby, apparently by Sunni al Qaeda fighters.
The U.S. military said five Marines were killed in western Iraq on Thursday when a roadside bomb blast hit their vehicle, in one of the deadliest such attacks against U.S. troops since the invasion more than two years ago. No details were given. It was not clear how the Shi'ite-dominated National Assembly and government would react to the rejection by the main Sunni political group of an offer of more seats on the parliamentary committee charged with drafting a constitution by Aug. 15.
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