Sunni bloc quits Iraq government


	Sunni bloc quits Iraq government

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8-1-2007 8:51 AM

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                                        Sunni bloc quits Iraq govt, truck bomb kills 50                </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070801/wl_nm/iraq_dc_21"><P>
                        BAGHDAD (Reuters) - 
The main Sunni Arab political bloc quit
the Iraqi government on Wednesday in a blow to Prime Minister
<SPAN id="lw_1185969363_0">Nuri al-Maliki</SPAN>, while a suicide bomber driving a fuel truck
killed 50 people in one of several car bombs in Baghdad.                        
                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070801/wl_nm/iraq_dc_21"><P>The Sunni Accordance Front announced its pull-out from
Maliki's Shi'ite-led coalition over his failure to meet a list
of about a dozen demands, including a greater say in security
matters.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070801/wl_nm/iraq_dc_21"><P>The front's 44 members will remain in the 275-seat
parliament. Its withdrawal will have little practical effect on
the 15-month-old government, which is virtually paralyzed by
infighting but needs only a simple majority to keep
functioning.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070801/wl_nm/iraq_dc_21"><P>But the shaky coalition is under pressure from the United
States and its allies to end sectarian strife between Shi'ites
and Sunnis through national reconciliation.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2411061D-9865-4FD9-9330-5F6EB3A429FA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>