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Sunnis reject draft of Iraqi constitution
(AP)
Updated: 2005-08-28 21:38

Iraqi negotiators finished the country's new constitution Sunday without the endorsement of Sunni Arabs who helped prepare it, dealing a blow to the Bush administration and setting the stage for a bitter campaign leading up to an October referendum.

Several of the 15 members on the Sunni panel said they rejected the document because of disagreements over such issues as federalism, Iraq's identity and references to Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated Baath party.

Sunni Arab negotiators later said in a joint statement that they had asked the United Nations and Arab League to intervene.



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