Online NewsHour: Update | Constitutional Efforts Hit Snag in Iraq | August 15, 2007 | PBS: "Politically shunned since the removal of Saddam Hussein and his Sunni Baath Party in 2003, Sunni leaders and their six cabinet ministers left the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, citing the inability of the Iraqi government to address its concerns, including more involvement in security matters."
Video: Israeli soldiers fire tear gas at 6-year-old children on their way to school The new school year started four days ago in the occupied West Bank, and Israeli soldiers have fired tear gas and hurled stun grenades at Palestinian elementary school students on at least two occasions already. In the Nablus -area village of Burin , which is surrounded by illegal Jewish-only Israeli settlements , Israeli forces stormed an elementary school Wednesday, firing tear gas and stun grenades at students after a settler’s vehicle traveling nearby the school was allegedly hit with a rock thrown by a Palestinian youth. Many children were treated at the scene for tear-gas inhalation, reported Ma’an News Agency . One day earlier, Israeli forces in Hebron fired up to 15 tear gas canisters and five stun grenades at small children as they made their way to school Tuesday morning. Video of the attack — recorded and posted to YouTube by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM)...
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