(New York Post) Amir Taheri - Last April, the Iraq Islamic Party, the largest political grouping of the Arab Sunni minority, abandoned its policy of boycotting the political process. The party's decision brought a murderous response from the largely non-Iraqi terror groups led by Abu-Mussab al-Zarqawi and other pseudo-religious gangsters. Yet even though the Zarqawi gang murdered a deputy leader of the party and two other Sunni representatives to the constitutional talks, every one of the Sunni political groups has joined the process. The most immediate effect of the "Sunni switch" can be seen in the long lines of people registering to vote in Arab Sunni-majority provinces. Despite the murderous efforts of al-Qaeda cheered on by Saddam nostalgics in the West, more and more Iraqis are beginning to understand that they can do with ballots far more than they ever could with bullets.
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