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View Full Version : Iraq parliament chaos exposes deep rifts amid new violence


farquar
03-31-2005, 05:42 AM
Unable to decide on a cabinet or parliament speaker, questions abounded whether the country’s volatile communal mix could write a permanent legal charter by mid-August, the deadline set in the interim constitution (TAL).

“There are certain groups that want to see the TAL as the basis of the new constitution. If that is agreed upon it will make our job much easier to finish it by August. But probably we’ll see some big differences,” said Sunni MP Hajem al-Hassani. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/March/focusoniraq_March145.xml&section=focusoniraq