As leaders drafting a constitution reached tentative agreement on some issues, Shiites protested in Baghdad after Friday Prayer at the Kazemiya Mosque, in background, against creating a federal political structure.
3 Sunni Election Workers Seized and Killed in Mosul
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 19 - Three Sunni election workers were kidnapped while tacking up voting posters in the northern city of Mosul and then killed in front of a crowded mosque on Friday, the latest in a series of violent incidents exposing the rift that has opened up among Iraq's Sunnis over whether to take part in the coming elections. The attack was the second in as many days against Sunnis trying to join in the country's democratic process. That is supposed to culminate in a nationwide referendum on a constitution in October and elections in December.
On Thursday, gunmen stormed the Great Mosque in Ramadi, a largely Sunni city about 80 miles from Baghdad, where local leaders were discussing the constitution. The gunmen opened fire and wounded three men................
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