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From: geode00	7/30/2005 3:48:45 PM
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Iraq Constitution slated for 8/15: "...The latest draft suggests that Islam will play a central role, to the concern of the more sectarian Kurds, who run an autonomous region in the north and want the right to vote on secession from Iraq within eight years. That demand has alarmed Iraq’s neighbours, who have large Kurdish minorities and are wary of calls for Kurdish independence...." timesonline.co.uk The neighbors don't get much air time with the corporate media but they are there and they are alarmed from time to time. ============Then there's the oddly Iranian-looking consideration. We don't hear much about al Sistani but he's working on codifing his power anyway. "...One draft under consideration would make Iraq an Islamic state bound to follow the precepts of the Koran. Senior Shiite Muslim scholars would be given a special advisory status to the government. The draft was printed in the state-subsidized newspaper Al-Sabah...." usatoday.com

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