Sunday, July 23, 2006

Mosques bombed, tense Baghdad under curfew


Sounds like the unity government in Iraq is through with Junior!

Mosques bombed, tense Baghdad under curfew��Top News��Reuters.com:

'Iraq as a political project is finished,' a top government official told Reuters -- anonymously because the coalition of Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki remains committed in public to a U.S.-sponsored constitution preserving Iraq's unity.
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The parties have moved to Plan B,' the official said, saying Sunni, ethnic Kurdish and majority Shi'ite blocs were looking at ways to divide power and resources and to solve the conundrum of Baghdad's mixed population of seven million.
'There is serious talk of Baghdad being divided into east and west,' said the official, who has long been a proponent of the present government's objectives. 'We are extremely worried.'

Officials and delegates from a range of political, tribal, regional and religious groups will meet in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone government compound on Saturday for the inaugural meeting of the National Reconciliation Commission.

Maliki, who meets President Bush on Tuesday, has described a 24-point reconciliation plan outlined a month ago as a 'last chance' for peace.

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