Sunnis threaten to pull out of Iraq govt, take up arms (AFX, 11/08/06)
The main Sunni Arab bloc in Iraq’s parliament threatened today to pull out of the unity government and take up arms if the Shiite-dominated government continued to ignore its calls for the dismantling of militias.
Salim Abdallah, spokesman for the National Concord Front, a bloc of three Sunni parties holding 44 seats in parliament, told Agence France-Presse his group had delivered a message to the government two weeks ago about dissolving the militias.
If the Sunni would rather be driven from Iraq than live under majority rule, you may as well get it over with.
