Top Shiite Cleric Warns U.N. on New Law

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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's most influential Shiite Muslim (search) cleric has written to the top U.N. envoy to the country saying the country's U.S.-backed interim constitution was a recipe for the break up of the country, according to a statement released Monday.

In a March 19 letter to top U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani (search) said he would not participate in upcoming meetings with U.N. officials should the world body endorse the interim law.

"This constitution that gives the presidency in Iraq to a three-member council, a Kurd (search), a Sunni Arab (search) and a Shiite Arab, enshrines sectarianism and ethnicity in the future political system in the country," the Shiite leader's letter said.
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Boy it sure sounds like the Iraqies are involved in writting there own constitution doesn't it??