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Article: 3 Sunni Arabs gunned down
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 20, 2005
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Masked gunmen killed three Sunni Arabs in front
of horrified witnesses outside a mosque in Mosul on Friday, after
grabbing them as they hung posters urging fellow Sunnis to vote in a
referendum on the new constitution.
As the Monday deadline to finish the constitution approaches,
Sunni Arabs and some Shiites rallied in Baghdad and elsewhere to
protest calls for a federated state -- a demand of the Kurds and the
biggest Shiite party but a key stumbling block to an agreement on the
charter.
Talks continued into Saturday morning with U.S. officials
intensifying pressure on the Kurds to accept Shiite and Sunni demands
for a greater role of Islam in government and to abandon ...