Power failure, shadow puppets, at Iraq constitution assembly

[Cocoa]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8964313/site/newsweek/

Aug. 15, 2005 - The lights went out on Iraq’s constitutional process Monday night--literally. As the National Assembly met in late-night session to avert a constitutional crisis in the fledgling-new nation, there was a power failure in their temporary home inside Baghdad’s heavily fortified convention center. Electricity was soon restored, but not before security personnel scrambled flashlights and one unknown attendee performed shadow puppets in front of the country’s interim president and prime minister. But the surreal scene didn’t prevent lawmakers, minutes before midnight, from extending by one week a deadline to finish drafting a new constitution, thus averting having parliament dissolved and forcing new elections. Most dismissed the power outage as a fluke rather than deliberate sabotage. “I don’t believe in conspiracy theories,” Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari told reporters afterward. “This is something normal that happens due to technical reasons.”

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[Maestro]

1. Nice to see the Bushlers have done such a good job

building the infrastructure of the country. Asswipes. I detest *.