Iraq Update:Iraqi lawmakers agree to seek 10-day charter extension

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BAK569678.htm

Iraqi lawmakers agree to seek 10-day charter extension

BAGHDAD, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Several members of the committee drafting Iraq's constitution said on Monday they had agreed to seek a 10-day extension to the Aug. 15 deadline to try to complete negotiations over the highly contested charter.

The members, from the Sunni and Shi'ite communities, said the proposal would be put to the Iraqi parliament which was beginning a late-night meeting in Baghdad. As the meeting was getting underway, power briefly went out in parliament.

"We agreed to extend the deadline for 10 days," Salah al-Mutlaq, a senior Sunni negotiator, told Reuters.

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1. It might as well be 10 years, for all the good it will do.

Democracy in Iraq?

I wouldn't count on it.