The "unity government" is collapsing in Baghdad

First it was Sadr pulling his ministers, now it's the most mainline Sunnis. (These Sunnis were cited as the primary hope for a political reconciliation after Tariq Hashimi met with Bush in December.)

The largest bloc of Sunni Arabs in the Iraqi Parliament threatened to withdraw its ministers from the Shiite-dominated cabinet today in frustration over the Iraq government’s failure to deal with Sunni concerns.

President Bush stepped in to forestall the move, calling one of Iraq’s two vice presidents, Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni Arab, and inviting him to Washington.

Also in this article, freakin' C.H.U.D.s,

In the Mosul attacks, insurgents popped out from manholes near the police station and fired rocket-propelled grenades while three suicide car bombs exploded near the station, said Lt. Col. Eric Welsh, commander of the single American combat battalion in Mosul.

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