Iraqis Said to OK Interim Constitution

[Barrett808]

Iraqis Said to OK Interim Constitution
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi officials reached agreement early Monday on the draft of an interim constitution and will probably sign the document after a Shiite Muslim religious holiday ends, a spokesman for a member of the Iraqi Governing Council said.

Entifadh Qanbar, spokesman for council member Ahmad Chalabi, said the meeting ended at 4:20 a.m. with "full agreement ... on each article." Qanbar expected the document to be signed Wednesday — one day after the end of the Shiite feast Ashoura.

Top U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer, who was closely involved in the final days of negotiation, must then approve the document.

Qanbar said the draft charter will recognize Islam as "a source of legislation" — rather than "the" source as some officials had sought — and that no law will be passed that violates the tenets of the Muslim religion.

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Further south, U.S. soldiers fired on a car that failed to stop when a military convoy passed by, killing one Iraqi and critically injuring another near Rumaythah, 135 miles south of Baghdad.

Afterward, hundreds of Iraqis gathered at the site, chanting "Down with America! Down with Bush!" and pelting U.S. soldiers and Dutch marines with rocks.

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[SilasSoule]

1. Hmmmm.

Top U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer, who was closely involved in the final days of negotiation, must then approve the document

Does this sound like democracy in action to anyone?


Somebody should be keeping a close eye on Chalabi

[I AM SPARTACUS]

2. No, not by any stretch of the imagination...

and while we're eyeballing the puppet Chalabi, it'd be nice if Toto could show us the man behind the curtain as well...