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Sunni politician calls for U.N. and Arab intervention to solve Iraq crisis - International Herald Tribune

Sunni politician calls for U.N. and Arab intervention to solve Iraq crisis - International Herald TribuneAbdul-Nasser al-Janabi said he made a mistake when he decided to run for parliament in 2005. He spoke to The Associated Press in Jordan, where he announced this weekend that he was quitting parliament to support the insurgency.

"I feel that I've become a target for the Iraqi government which is now, along with its security forces, targeting each and every Iraqi who opposes them and who tells the truth," al-Janabi said.

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