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."
Broken Spring? : Information Clearing House This is a sequel to my June 2011 article, ‘After the spring’, on the upheavals in the Arab world. It is an article that has been painful to write, because it brings bad tidings and offers a pessimistic analysis of the upheavals, at least in the short term, in a number of Arab countries. The outcomes and potential outcomes of these uprisings have also acquired new, very significant dimensions. These include a complex entanglement with the accelerated preparations for a possible attack on Iran, and a poisonous, sectarian aspect that could have the consequence of ripping Syria and the Middle East apart.
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