Iraqi Councillor says constitution deal agreed

Iraqi Councillor says constitution deal agreed
Sun 7 March, 2004 08:46

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - A senior member of Iraq's Governing Council says an agreement has been reached with the country's top Shi'ite Muslim cleric on the terms of an interim constitution and the document will be signed on Monday.

"We have reached an agreement. There is going to be very good news very soon," Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, a Shi'ite on the 25-member Council, told reporters on Sunday after emerging from half an hour of talks with Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a reclusive cleric who wields huge influence among Iraq's Shi'ite majority.

"We are going to sign (the interim constitution) on Monday."

It was not immediately clear if Rubaie meant that Sistani had accepted the existing wording of the interim constitution, which was agreed to by the Governing Council last week, or if he had worked out changes to the wording with Sistani that would then have to be presented to the rest of the Council.

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the neocons must be gagging.

Ignorance ain't bliss, you assholes. We told you so in 91 and you knew better. So, the worm turns.

Tell me, how is Israel better off now? Fundies in Iran? Fundies in Iraq?

You gambled and lost... do the honorable thing. But then again you have no honor.