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Sunnis pressured to OK Iraq constitution
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-08-14 11:58
Many secular-minded Iraqi women fear a loss of their rights if Islam is
designated as the main source of legislation.
Despite word of agreements on specific issues, it appeared some details had
been left unresolved and would be taken up by the new parliament next year.
For example, a Shiite member of the drafting committee, Nadim al-Jaberi, said
leaders agreed regional governments in oil-producing areas would keep 5 percent
of the revenue and the rest would go to the central government for distribution
to other areas based on their population.
Later, however, Oil Minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum said the constitution
would simply declare that natural resources were for all Iraqi people, with
details of revenue distribution to be worked out later.
"But the fact and the principle in the constitution is that Iraqi oil for the
Iraqi people," he told The Associated Press.
In Saturday's violence, American and Iraqi forces killed one insurgent and
wounded four in Mosul after they were attacked by gunfire, the U.S. military
said in a statement. U.S. and Iraqi troops killed another suspected insurgent
near Tarmaiya north of Baghdad.
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