7月19日，伊拉克宪法起草委员会的三名逊尼派成员在首都巴格达被枪杀。就在惨剧发生前数小时，伊拉克总统塔拉巴尼才刚刚宣布，伊拉克永久宪法草案有望于7月底出台。外电报道如下：Gunmen assassinated¹ two Sunni Arabs involved in the drafting of Iraq's constitution Tuesday, another blow to U.S. and Iraqi efforts to draw members of the disaffected² community away from the insurgency³ and into the political process.

Mijbil Issa, a committee member, Dhamin Hussein al-Obeidi, an adviser⁴ to the group, and their bodyguard⁵ died in a hail of gunfire from two vehicles as they left a restaurant in Baghdad's Karradah district, police said.

Issa, a prominent lawyer, was among 15 Sunni Arabs appointed last month to the 55-member constitutional committee - made up mostly of Shiites and Kurds - to give the Sunni minority a greater voice in building a new Iraq. Ten other Sunnis, including al-Obeidi, were named as advisers⁶ to the committee.

Disaffected表示“（对政府）不忠的；有叛意的；愤愤不平的”，动词disaffect表示“使疏远，使不满，使不服”，例如：The dictator's policies had soon disaffected the people.（独裁者的政策很快就使人民大为不满。）