Word: shying
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...Earlier this week, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the head of the largest Shiite party SCIRI, officially called for the creation of a Shi'ite region in the south after meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. What effect will this have on the process...
...Shi'ites, in addition to their own region, want a greater role for Islam in the constitution. The Kurds and Sunnis generally oppose a greater role for religion. Women's gropus are also concerned that a constitution based on Islam would curtail women's rights in Iraq, which are relatively liberal by the region's standards...
...enjoyed in their territory for the past 14 years. They're also demanding final status talks on the city of Kirkuk, which they claim as a Kurdish city, but which was ?Arabized? under Saddam Hussein. The Sunni Arabs are pushing back against the Kurdish claims on Kirkuk and Shi'ite demands for a similar autonomous region in the south. Sunni negotiators oppose federalism because they believe it would lead to the breakup of Iraq, but they're also worried that if the Shi'ites and the Kurds control their own regions, they'll horde the oil revenues rather than share...
...country's feuding political leaders to agree on a draft constitution by the Aug. 15 deadline. The constitutional committee has made limited progress on some thorny issues, such as the role of Islam in a new government, but it's at odds on others. Kurds in the north and Shi'ites in the south, for example, are demanding a loose federal form of government that gives them autonomy to control revenues from the oil fields in their regions. The Sunnis, who lost political clout when they boycotted elections in January, strongly oppose such a plan, fearing it would lead...
...often over lunch or dinner. When Rice is on the road, Bush phones her at all hours. On the plane back from a surprise one-day visit to Iraq in May, she returned the favor, reaching Bush in the Oval Office to report on a meeting with Iraq's Shi'ite leaders in which she got them to agree to include more Sunnis in the drafting of a new constitution. "She was charged up," says a senior White House official...