Sunnis boycott Iraq parliament

Hmmm. Perhaps we should have accepted the Sunnis' offer to cease fire if we agreed to pull out within two years:

Al-Maliki's government, which took office in May, has so far made little progress in healing the rift between Shiites and Sunnis, which widened dramatically after the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra.

On Sunday, the largest Sunni Arab bloc in parliament announced it was suspending participation in the legislature until a Sunni female lawmaker was freed by kidnappers who seized her and seven bodyguards in a Shiite part of Baghdad on Saturday.

Sunni politician Adnan al-Dulaimi called on other lawmakers to join the boycott, saying security officials bore responsibility for the abduction of Tayseer al-Mashhadani.