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Back to Iraq

You'd think the hardest part of writing a new constitution for Iraq would be getting all parties to agree on its contents. Twenty-five factions, from the communists to the head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq –– not to mention the Americans and the Brits –– have to be satisfied, and nothing less than the fate of a nation hangs in the balance.   Feisal Istrabadi, the principal legal drafter of the Iraqi interim constitution, coped with that part just fine. …