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2008-10 In Syria, President Bashar Assad warned of the threat posed by Sunni fundamentalists, saying “extremist forces” were operating in northern Lebanon and looking to destabilise Syria.
2008-10 In Lebanon anti-Syrian politicians are worried that Syria could intervene militarily in Lebanon under the pretext of cracking down on Sunni extremists.
2008-09-27 In Damascus a car bomb killed 17 people.
It was blamed on Suni extremists.
2008-01-12 In Iraq, Shiite and Sunni MPs unanimously passed the Justice and Accountability Law. This law allowed ex-officials of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to public life.
2008-01-07 In Iraq, a double bombing killed at least seven people and wounded 25 Monday outside the Baghdad office of a government agency that cares for Sunni mosques and shrines.
2007-08-06 73 percent (= nearly double the figure six months earlier) of the attacks that wounded or killed U.S. troops last month in Baghdad were launched by Shiite militiamen, breakaway factions of the Shiite Mahdi Army militia, with Iranian weapons and training, stepping into the void left as Sunni insurgents have been dislodged.
-- Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, the U.S. second in command
2007-08-05 The US forces will have to align themselves with Sunni leaders who had previously opposed fiercely the US occupation of Iraq in order for the political process to move forward.

"But the reality is, if Iraq is to reconcile, if Iraq is to stabilise, it's going to involve people who have been in opposition deciding not to be in opposition any more and joining up with the government . . . I think there is a need to take some risk, some measured risk,"
-- Robert Gates, U.S. defence secretary, CNN.
2007-08-01 Tariq al Hashemi, the only Iraqi Accordance Front member who remains in Maliki's government, is on the verge of resigning.
According to Hashemi the Iraqi government needed a "political shock" to stop it from continuing to marginalize the Sunnis.
-- Tariqal Hashemi, Sunni Vice President
2007-07-30 Resolving the internal conflict among Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds ``remains the precondition to an Iraq that can govern, defend and sustain itself and be an ally in the war on terror,''
``Achieving progress in Iraq and furthering broader U.S. regional interests are inextricably linked [ … ] Slow progress in Iraq is undermining U.S. credibility and weakening efforts to achieve regional objectives.''
-- Michael Mullen, Navy Adm., in written answers to prepared questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee
2007-07-25 in Iraq, the Iraqi Accordance Front said it pulled out of Mr. Maliki's coalition government, but would return its six cabinet members if the prime minister met a list of demands. The Sunni bloc says it wants, among other things, pardons for detainees not facing specific criminal charges and for all militias to be disbanded.

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