Iraqi leaders created Islamic State problem and can end it, say Iraqi Sunnis

(The Christian Science Monitor) An Iraqi truck driver knows how Sunni militants are created in Iraq—he nearly became one.

Mohamed Abu Abed’s account of suffering at the hands of Iraq’s Shi‘ite-dominated security forces and government over the years echoes among Iraq’s minority Sunnis, who once held power under Saddam Hussein but have been pushed aside and often targeted since the 2003 American invasion.

Iraq’s Sunnis began a popular uprising in December 2012, and in June this year they helped Islamic State militants advancing from Syria seize control of swaths of their own country.