Unresolved issues like the role of Islam and whether Kurdish as well as Arabic should be an official language were discussed on 2 August in Baghdad.
The constitution committee has vowed that the draft charter will be ready by 15 August, in time for a scheduled mid-October referendum.
Elsewhere, a powerful blast shook central Baghdad yesterday when a car bomb went off near a U.S. military convoy, killing four people and wounding 23 others.
The U.S. military announced on 2 August that seven Marines died in action in two separate attacks west of the capital on 1 August.
According to Pentagon figures, 1,800 U.S. military personnel have now been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.
(AFP)
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The constitution committee has vowed that the draft charter will be ready by 15 August, in time for a scheduled mid-October referendum.
Elsewhere, a powerful blast shook central Baghdad yesterday when a car bomb went off near a U.S. military convoy, killing four people and wounding 23 others.
The U.S. military announced on 2 August that seven Marines died in action in two separate attacks west of the capital on 1 August.
According to Pentagon figures, 1,800 U.S. military personnel have now been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.
(AFP)
See also:
U.S. Ambassador Announces Seven-Point Plan For Country
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