Sunni bloc ends boycott of Iraqi parliament

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Sunni bloc ends boycott of Iraqi parliament
Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:45AM EDT

By Mariam Karouny

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc has ended its
boycott of the Shi'ite-dominated parliament, officials said on
Thursday, in a positive sign for the country's faltering
attempts at national reconciliation.

The return of the Accordance Front comes at a time when Shi'ite
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is under growing pressure from
Washington to push through laws aimed at quelling violence and
reconciling majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs.

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The Accordance Front began its boycott in June in protest against
the ousting of one of its senior members, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani,
as parliament speaker. It said he would be reinstated.

-snip-

A separate ban on attending Maliki's cabinet meetings remains in
place, however. The Front quit the cabinet last month in anger
over legal action against one of its ministers.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSYAT71336220070719

[Kolesar]

1. That does sound like good news ... eom

[dipsydoodle]

2. Al Sadr's crowd

had already agreed too.

Hopefully they'll all get their heads together now and NOT pass the oil law.

[ohio2007]

3. they are surging to form a more perfect union ?

well,
they are going to take August off so maybe

in order to get the paid vacation ....they had to show up for a roll call....

If the minority Sunni's can't beat them,

they might as well join them and be the vocal minority.

[Supersedeas]

4. did the Corp Shill Media ever report that there was a boycott to begin with!?!