Iraq: The Deadly Cost of Excluding the Sunnis

摘要

In baghdad's highly fortified Green Zone, committees drawn from Iraq's major political parties and ethnic groups are trying to hammer out a constitution before the Aug. 15 deadline. But outside the U.S.-controlled area, violence and insecurity rule. Some 220 people were killed in suicide bombings and other violent incidents in Iraq from July 11 to July 17 alone. And those statistics don't capture the countless robberies and kidnappings that may be having an even more destructive effect on Iraqi society. "I worry about the long-term damage to Iraq," says Phebe Marr, an Iraq specialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington. "Some of the professional and middle classes are leaving."