BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Sunni Muslims yesterday laid out the demands that they say must be met by the Iraqi government if they are to rejoin the committee drafting a permanent national constitution, warning that it would be a dire mistake to move ahead without Sunni participation.
"Unless you bring in all the people in the country, you cannot write a constitution," said Saleh Mutlak, one of the Sunnis on the constitutional committee.
The Sunnis asked U.S. diplomats in Baghdad to intervene on their behalf with the Shiites and Kurds, who together comprise an overwhelming majority on the 71-member committee. Top officials at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad met Wednesday with the Sunnis and were holding discussions with other groups today in an effort to patch the committee back together.
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