Thursday, July 19, 2007

Iraq's Main Sunni Parliamentary Bloc Ends Boycott of Parliament

France42.com website brings us this story this morning... Iraq's main Sunni parliamentary bloc, the National Concord Front, ended its boycott of the assembly on Thursday, in a move that could help the passage of key laws aimed at promoting national unity... The 44-member bloc had walked out of the legislature last month in protest at the ouster of the Sunni speaker of the assembly, Mahmud Mashhadani, after he allegedly ordered his bodyguards to beat up a Shiite MP...
Read story in full at link below...
Iraqi Sunni bloc ends boycott of parliament

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