The draft also made Islam "a main source" of law in what seemed a compromise between Islamist Shi'ites and secular Kurds. But Sunni Arabs, outraged at what they called a "breach of consensus," stood by a demand "federalism" be left out. "We will campaign ... to tell both Sunnis and Shi'ites to reject the constitution, which has elements that will lead to the break-up of Iraq and civil war," Soha Allawi, a Sunni Arab member of the drafting committee, told Reuters. "If they pass this constitution, then the rebellion will reach its peak," said Sunni delegate Hussein Shukur al-Falluji. |
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