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Bringing in the Sunnis

Washington Post:

Iraq's new Shiite-dominated government on Sunday welcomed the end of a Sunni Arab boycott of politics, encouraging a newly formed Sunni bloc to distance itself from insurgent attacks against civilians and security forces.

The radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, meanwhile, took up the unlikely role of mediator between Shiite and Sunni factions, circulating a message that called for all sides to renounce the killing of all Iraqis, a Sunni official said.

The overtures by opponents of the new Iraqi government emerged as violence in Iraq has included more blood-for-blood attacks on Sunni and Shiite clerics.

An influential Sunni group, the Association of Muslim Scholars, has blamed Shiite-led security forces for the killings of Sunni preachers, saying on its Web site Sunday that one cleric was tortured with an electric drill before he was killed.

If the Shia have been retaliating against the Sunni clerics , it appears to have worked in getting them interested in joining the government. The Shia have been remarably stoic in the face of several years worth of provocation. I remain skeptical that brining the Sunnis into the government will stop the Sunni bombing spree. That will only stop when the leaders of the the bombing are killed or captured. Until Israel began targeting the Hamas leadership they had on limited progress toward stopping the attacks. But, as the leadership of Hamas was reduced the bombing was reduced.