Bomber Targets Iraqi Police Post

"No one is condemning it. This is a very dangerous attitude," he said. Aside from governments, "we didn't get any reaction from people in the rest of the world. It was as if nothing had happened."

"I want to ask any journalist, any thinker, any leader, when he sits at home and sees 32 innocent Iraqi children killed -- what is the difference between his children and the kids killed, regardless of that person's religious or ethnic background?"

In other violence Sunday, gunmen assassinated a deputy police chief in Kirkuk, police Col. Adil Zain Alabidin said.

The U.S. military announced that a Marine was killed Saturday in a bombing near Rutbah in western Iraq.

On Monday, a suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle at a checkpoint near a central Baghdad hotel, killing at least five people, the Reuters news agency reported.

In political developments, Sunni Arab members of the committee drafting the new Iraqi constitution signaled they were about to end their boycott, which began after last week's assassination of two of their colleagues, the Associated Press reported. The 12 Sunni Arab members of the committee announced they would meet with the Shiite chairman over breakfast Monday.

Sunni committee member Salih Mutlaq told the news service that he and his colleagues had received verbal assurances that their grievances would be addressed. If all goes well at the breakfast meeting, "God willing we will participate tomorrow in the constitution drafting committee," he said.

Iraq's government has agreed to meet a Sunni demand to provide security for all members of the constitution committee, Hachem Hassani, head of Iraq's national assembly, told reporters Sunday.

Mutlaq, one of the leaders of the Sunni boycott, said Jafari's Shiite- and Kurdish-led government had yet to agree to the "most important" Sunni demands: limiting Iraq's move toward a federal system with power concentrated in the provinces, and allowing an international investigation of Esa's killing.

A federal system would give the Kurdish north of the country and the Shiite south greater regional powers. Sunnis want any discussion on decentralizing power from Baghdad to "guarantee a united Iraq, not division," Mutlaq said.

Iraqi leaders have committed to an Aug. 15 deadline for having a draft constitution approved by the National Assembly, in time for a national referendum in October. Sunni participation in the drafting of the constitution is seen as vital to ensuring the credibility of the work and to defusing the insurgency. The deadline for the draft is also regarded as vital to restoring public faith in the political process.

Correspondent Ellen Knickmeyer in Irbil contributed to this report.