May be worth knowing for some who want a more complete picture.
Nov 11, 2003 - US soldier shot and killed the US-appointed mayor of Sadr City - the 2 million Shiite district of Baghdad.
Abrupt and unscheduled return to US by L. Paul Bremer, Washington's proconsul in Baghdad, for top-level White House consultations after a pessimistic CIA report on public attitudes in Iraq.
Administration officials have publicly described Bremer's two-day dash to Washington as routine -d espite the fact that Bremer had to cancel a long-planned meeting in Baghdad with visiting Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Despite public opposition, Miller's government has supplied more troops to the occupation than any other country, except US and UK.
The IGC, which has until Dec. 15 to submit to the United Nations Security Council a plan to draft a new constitution while in southern Iraq, a grand ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued a fatwa declaring that only an elected assembly has the legitimacy to draw up a constitution. For many of Iraq's 15m Shias that is all that matters. The administration could go along with the position of the Shia authorities in Najaf, who have called for elections to a constitutional convention. But that could create new problems or further alienate the Sunni population due to the fact that Shiites would almost certainly dominate such a process.
miko
