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...would give them political power commensurate with their two-thirds majority of Iraq's population. The differences are not only over how a new constitution would distribute power, but also over how it ought to be written. The Shiites, backed by even their most moderate and U.S.-friendly clergy, insist that that the constitution-making body be elected by Iraqis - a proposal anathema to the Sunni and Kurdish representatives. And so on. Iraq was traditionally governed by an iron fist from Baghdad; simply putting its fractious components together again requires the forging of a new political consensus that could...
...hardly surprising that a whiff of desperation hung over the Administration as it tried to assign blame for the 48 harrowing hours of bombing in Baghdad. Some officials continued to insist that most of the insurgents were Saddam loyalists. Others said the sophistication of four nearly simultaneous attacks indicated the work of foreign fighters--Islamic radicals from outside Iraq, perhaps representing al-Qaeda or the related terrorist group Ansar al-Islam. Several Administration officials told TIME that Hizballah, the Lebanese Shi'ite militia, is becoming more active in Iraq. Pentagon officials leaked word that captured insurgents had claimed that Iraqi...
...Iraq who have reviewed summaries of communications intercepts and agent reports told TIME these theories--about foreign fighters, Izzat Ibrahim and Saddam--are based on supposition more than evidence. A man with a Syrian passport who tried to carry out a fifth car bombing last week was captured. Iraqis insist it is not in the psychology of their compatriots to engage in suicide attacks. But the intelligence officials say the U.S. can't really determine if there has been a significant influx of Islamists or terrorists into the country. And if foreigners are behind even some of the attacks, says...
...which Iraqis adopt a new constitution and elect a government. But constitution-making is a deeply contentious business in Iraq, which has, pretty much since it was constituted as a nation-state by the British after World War I, been ruled by the Sunni minority. The Shiite majority, naturally, insist on nothing short of a majoritarian democracy, while the Kurds demand the right to govern northern Iraq as an autonomous component of an Iraqi federation (the consternation of neighboring Turkey). Right now there's substantial disagreement over how a constitution should be adopted - the key Shiite religious authorities have insisted...
...over the police and security forces of the country's north and east. But Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says he wants to keep the peace talks going, and though decisions in the LTTE are ultimately made by its enigmatic supremo, Velupillai Prabhakaran, the LTTE's operatives on the ground insist they too want no more bloodshed. "We're talking about peace, we're not talking about war," says Thaya Master, an LTTE spokesman...