Sunnis vow to play ball.

After admitting last month that not participating in the elections was a bad move, saying: "Now the Sunni community faces the fact that it made a big mistake and that it would have been far better to participate, " they have had to succumb to the will of the Iraqi people.

"BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's Sunni Arabs endorsed a list of 15 men Thursday to represent the minority on a Shiite-dominated committee drafting the new constitution.

The agreement removes the final obstacle hampering efforts to get the minority's representatives to sit on the committee, which has just until mid-August to draft a charter to guide Iraq in the post-Saddam Hussein era.

``The atmosphere in the meeting was very cordial,'' said Abdul-Rahman al-Noami, one of the two Sunni Arab legislators on the 55-member committee. ``We cannot satisfy everyone on the Sunni street but I can say that we have achieved about 90 percent of this and that's excellent.''"

This has got to take the wind out of the sails of the "insurgency" there. From the outlook we heard from the media before the last elections, you would have thought the Sunnis would never do this. This 180-degree turn seems to this observer is yet another historic moment.

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