Parties reach deal on constitution

[Surya Gayatri]

Parties Reach Deal on Iraq Constitution

By SLOBODAN LEKIC, Associated Press Writer 53 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hours before a midnight deadline, Shiites and
Kurds reached an agreement Monday on a draft constitution and
were trying to persuade Sunni Arabs to go along with their
compromises, officials said.
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Negotiators met for about three hours Monday morning and
convened again shortly after 4 p.m. at the home of Kurdish
leader Massoud Barzani in the Green Zone for talks Kurdish
lawmaker Mahmoud Othman said would "be decisive." He
said there was some progress in the earlier session.

A senior government official, speaking on condition of
anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, said an
agreement had been reached between the Shiites and the Kurds
in the morning.

Those groups were now trying to sell the deal to the Sunni
Arabs in the afternoon session.

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[Bob3]

1. "trying to sell the deal to the Sunni Arabs"

This means they haven't agreed yes? So doesn't that make the headline just a little misleading? Yes?

[Journeyman]

5. This was the same article that appeared last week, just before. . .

the whole "agreement" fell apart.

Get the feeling we're living a collective Groundhog Day?

[Spazito]

2. Hmmm, I think we went through this the last time they 'reached an

agreement according to anonymous sources' only to find they have not. How is it one reaches an agreement without one of the key parties agreeing??

[VegasWolf]

3. Headline TOTALLY misleading!!! nt

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Wholely agree, but took it right from Yahoo!

Yeah, two out of three have agreed--so where does that leave them?

[Kelvin Mace]

4. New headline for the week

Israel and America reach deal on Mid-East Peace.

Parties hope to get Palestinians to sign on.

[jasmeel]

6. LOL!!

[maddezmom]

8. pretty much sums it up

[Surya Gayatri]

9. LOL!!!!

It's that impartial, objective 'libbrul' press on the job again!

[maddezmom]

10. Sunnis not buying what the Kurds and Shi'ites are selling

Iraq Shi'ites aim to push through constitution
Mon Aug 22, 2005 04:49 PM BST
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By Michael Georgy and Andrew Hammond
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's ruling Shi'ite Islamists prepared to force a constitution through parliament before a Monday midnight deadline but minority Sunnis vowed to vote it down in a referendum and warned of civil war if it were passed.

U.S. President George W. Bush, campaigning himself to quell growing disquiet at home over the costly military occupation of Iraq, has pressed hard for the U.S.-sponsored timetable to be respected and says it will help sap the Sunni Arab insurgency.

A draft prepared without the participation of minority Sunni Arab delegates appeared nonetheless to give ground to some of their concerns about Shi'ites and Kurds hiving off powerful federal regions in the oil-rich north and south.


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