Kurds say US 'pushed' Islamic law in Iraq

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http://www.theage.com.au/news/iraq/kurds-say-us-pushed-islamic-law/2005/08/21/1124562751497.html

By Ellen Knickmeyer
Baghdad
August 22, 2005

KURDISH politicians negotiating a draft constitution have criticised the US ambassador to Iraq for allegedly pushing them to accept too great a role for Islamic law in the US drive to complete the charter on time.

Although a Sunni delegate made similar charges, US officials declined to comment publicly while they worked with politicians as today's deadline loomed.

US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad spent Saturday shuttling between Iraqi political leaders, members of Iraq's constitutional committee said.

Delegates said distribution of oil revenue dominated the talks but no agreement was reached. Shiite Arab, Kurdish and Sunni Muslim factions differ on how much revenue should be controlled by a federal Iraqi government and how it should be divided. But the question of Islamic law drew strong public protests from Kurds.

The current working draft of the constitution stipulates that no law can contradict Islamic principles. In talks with Shiite religious parties, Kurdish negotiators said they had pressed unsuccessfully to limit the definition of Islamic law to agreed-upon religious principles.

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1. Once it is written into the constituon it will never come out

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2. us soldiers & iraqis die to impose a brutal religious dictatorship. nt

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3. It's a warmup ...

You know that these creeps would like to push a Christo-Talibani law in the United States. Iraq is just a warmup.