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Cigarette manufacturers, however, have not extended the sale of this product nationwide. They have cited increased costs and low consumer demand as reasons to keep RIP cigarettes off the shelves...
...penalties and greater search powers, first proposed in 2000, are still being considered by the country's parliament; it could be months before they are in force. Anti-child exploitation groups are aghast. Authorities are "hamstrung at the moment," says Denise Ritchie, of the Stop Demand Foundation. "Here we are in 2005. Why is it taking so long? It should be a slam dunk...
...rarer among Iraqi voters, who tended to see the election as the fruit of their own efforts, most notably those of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, whose interventions forced the U.S. to scrap its own plan for a handpicked government to write the new constitution and instead accept Sistani's demand for elections. Indeed, many voters at the polls saw voting as a means of ending ?the occupation,? the collective noun by which many Iraqis - even cabinet ministers - refer to the U.S. presence. In other words, Iraqi voters didn't necessarily see themselves as marching in President Bush's freedom parade...
...insurgency growing in size and capability. On the other hand, as Juan Cole notes, key leaders of the UIA see a U.S. withdrawal as essential. One Sistani aide, for example, urged the Sunnis to participate on the grounds that an elected government would have "the ability to demand that the Occupying powers depart from Iraq, supporting this stance by their popular legitimacy." Such a call may yet figure in attempts by a new government to broker a political settlement with the nationalist component of the insurgency...
...Initially, the plan had been to hand power to returning exiles after toppling Saddam Hussein. When the exiles proved too unpopular, the U.S. then sought to have its handpicked Iraqi Governing Council write the new constitution. Even after the IGC proved incapable, the Bush administration consistently rejected Sistani's demand for democratic elections. Instead, U.S. administrator J. Paul Bremer proposed, that a constitution-making body be appointed by a series of caucuses comprising handpicked elites around the country. Sistani was having none of it. He insisted on democratic elections, used his influence among Shiites on the Governing Council to block...