Four Sunni Arab politicians withdrew yesterday from the group writing Iraq's new constitution after two colleagues were assassinated, threatening to derail the country's path toward full sovereignty.[...]
''We want a full international investigation" into the killings, [Saleh] Mutlak said, reflecting the Sunnis' belief that the Shi'ite-dominated government would not look closely into the assassination because it tacitly condones violence against hard-line, proresistance Sunni Arabs.
Algeria's envoy to Baghdad was kidnapped on Thursday, police sources said.[...]
Egypt's envoy was kidnapped and killed earlier this month by al Qaeda's Iraq wing, which vowed to carry out more attacks on diplomats in the Iraqi capital.
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