Two young Iraqi men, in a nasty Sunni town, caught driving a pickup after curfew: Iraqi civilians have been killed for less.

Why couldn't it offer to send some Arab and Muslim soldiers to protect polling places in the Sunni towns of Iraq?

The settlement is essentially a Sunni Muslim town surrounded by Alawite villages.

Since mid summer 2012 the town has been under attack from armed militants in neighbouring Sunni towns.

A conservative Sunni Muslim town called Hit, north of Baghdad, was in open revolt after American troops searched houses with women in them.

Many Sunnis, meanwhile, have angrily called the allegations nothing but a ruse drummed up to justify invasions of Sunni towns.

Outside Baghdad, Sunni leaders would be left alone to run Sunni towns.

They base, near the Sunni town, a new capital he named al-Qahira (Cairo), meaning "the Victorious" 4.

The mission in Falluja, a Sunni town that has long been a center of resistance, is more straightforward.

You occupied our Sunni towns, but never defeated them.