IRAQ WRAPUP 1-Iraq constitution body in turmoil

America, Canada and Mexico to draw up a constitution and everybody just be happy with the results.

Understatement of the year or decade.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sunni Muslim members on a committee drafting the new Iraqi constitution suspended their membership Wednesday in the wake of a colleague's assassination. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside an army recruiting center in central Baghdad, killing at least 10 people.

Wearing an explosives belt, the suicide attacker detonated his charge at the entrance to a recruiting center at the defunct Muthanna airport in central Baghdad, according to police and medical officials.

The violence came a day after two Sunni Arabs participating in drafting the charter _ committee member Mijbil Issa and committee adviser Dhamin Hussein al-Obeidi _ were gunned down as they left a Baghdad restaurant. A bodyguard was also killed.

"Our membership has been suspended temporarily until tomorrow when we meet the committee that chose us," Hamdoun said. "We don't have security."

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Sunnis suspend membership on Iraq constitutional committee; bomb kills 10

BAGHDAD (AP) - Sunni Muslim members on a committee drafting the new Iraqi constitution suspended their membership Wednesday in the wake of a colleague's assassination. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside an army recruiting centre in central Baghdad, killing at least 10 people.

Wearing an explosives belt, the suicide attacker detonated his charge at the entrance to a recruiting centre at the defunct Muthanna airport in central Baghdad, according to police and medical officials.

At least 21 others were injured in the attack, said Dr. Muhannad Jawad from Yarmouk Hospital. The recruiting centre has been targeted multiple times in recent months, with the latest attack on July 10, killing 25 and wounding 47.

The violence came a day after two Sunni Arabs participating in drafting the charter - committee member Mijbil Issa and committee adviser Dhamin Hussein al-Obeidi - were gunned down as they left a restaurant in Baghdad's Karradah district. A bodyguard was also killed.

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... that the U.S. will leave Iraq just about the time there's no one left IN Iraq. What a bang-up job we've done, eh? Whole cities flattened, hundreds of thousands killed or maimed, women's rights repealed, prisoners tortured/murdered, the historical sites and artifacts of humanity destroyed, and those Iraqis remaining are left to slug it out in a civil war.

Of course, Saddam is the only one standing trial for war crimes. The hypocrisy is astounding.

it would be safer.

Can't wait til Smirk brings this kind of democracy to Iran, Lebanon, North Korea, Pakistan, and Venezuela

Does anybody know? And are they going to replace the people who left or were killed?