Iraqi Sunni Bloc Says it Plans to Rejoin Cabinet
By VOA News
01 July 2008
Iraq's largest Sunni Arab parliamentary bloc says it is close to rejoining the Shi'ite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
A spokesman for the Iraq Accordance Front Tuesday said his group presented Mr. Maliki with a list of at least five new candidates for Cabinet posts. Parliament must now approve the list of candidates.
The bloc pulled out of Iraq's national unity government last August, saying the Shi'ite-led administration was not making enough concessions to the Sunni minority.
In other news Tuesday, Iraqi police say a truck bomb exploded near the house of a local Sunni sheikh in northern Iraq, killing one person. Police say the blast in a town south of Mosul wounded at least 25 other people, including the sheikh.
Elsewhere, police say a series of attacks killed at least five people in eastern Diyala province.
In one incident today, gunmen targeted a checkpoint in a village south of Diyala's capital, Baquba, and killed one member of a local U.S.-backed security force, known as an Awakening Council.
Police say an explosion later killed one man during the funeral procession for the checkpoint victim. The blast also wounded at least seven other people, including three children and a policeman.
Separately, police say three members of a family died in a bomb blast near their home, south of Baquba.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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