Iraqi Leaders Threaten to Support Boycott

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Members of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's bloc threatened on Sunday to walk out of the constitutional drafting committee in support of a Sunni group that had boycotted the process.

Committee member Adnan al-Janabi, who is also part of secular leader Allawi's eight-member bloc, criticized the way the commission had dealt with the Sunni members' decision to suspend their participation in drafting the new charter.

"Their demands and suspension of membership should have been studied and taken in a way that reassures them and brings them to participate in the draft constitution that we want to be agreed upon by all Iraqis," he said.

Al-Janabi, who is also a spokesman for Allawi's group, said the bloc's continued participation remains in question. "Our continuation in the committee drafting the constitution has become dependent on getting clarifications to what we have asked earlier," al-Janabi said.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050724/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[leftchick]

1. That AP link goes to a different story...

:shrug:

Bomber Kills 20 at Baghdad Police Station 13 minutes ago



BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber attacked a Baghdad police station Sunday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 30, police said.


The attacker detonated his charge at the Rashad police station in the eastern neighborhood of Mashtal around 2:50 p.m., said Capt. Mahir Abdul Satar.

Six cars, including two police cars, were seen burning and several nearby shops were damaged, police officials said. Body parts lay scattered around the area as firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze.

Insurgents have regularly targeted Iraq's police and security forces in attempts to further destabilize the country.

[maddezmom]

2. looks like they changed the headline and added newer info

:shrug:

[IndianaGreen]

3. You are right about the headline, but the story is in the middle now

This is the first break of the secular Allawi faction, which in restrospect looks a lot better than the pro-Iranian Islamists now in control, and the Sunnis that are interested in protecting their influence. This is perhaps the last chance to prevent Iraq from becoming an Iranian clone!

[leftchick]

4. ahh but

what sort of a chance? It does not look very likely at all to me.

:(

[IndianaGreen]

5. When we toppled Saddam and the Baathists, we guaranteed

the rise of an Iranian style Islamic Republic in Iraq. The Left's warnings about the consequences of invading Iraq were completely ignored.

I remember the poster of Osama bin Laden as Uncle Sam saying "I want you to invade Iraq" and listing all of the things that will go Al-Qaeda's way. The poster was posted by the tompaine website.

[leftchick]

6. Here it is...

I have thought of this many times over the last two years.

[IndianaGreen]

7. That's the one!

Scary how much of it has become reality!