Jon Brain (BBC): What next for Iraq's new charter?

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From the BBC Online
Dated Sunday August 28

What next for Iraq's new charter?
By Jon Brain
BBC News, Baghdad

Commending the constitution to Iraq's National Assembly, Humam Hammoudi, chairman of the committee that drafted it, described the moment as a "marvellous experience for all Iraqis".

They should be congratulated, he said, for this was "a constitution written by Iraqi hands".

However, as the document was read out to MPs chapter by chapter, line by line, the occasion had something of a hollow ring.

For the hands that wrote this constitution may have been Iraqi, but they were also exclusively Shia or Kurd.

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