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Insecurity May Delay Iraq Constitution

By SLOBODAN LEKIC
Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The deteriorating security situation may delay drafting the country's new constitution, a key step in the return to Iraqi sovereignty, a senior Iraqi official said Sunday.

In the latest violence, one U.S. soldier from the 1st Armored Division was killed late Saturday and another wounded when their vehicle struck a land mine in Baghdad, the military said. A British soldier was injured in a land mine explosion in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city after the capital, witnesses said.

Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, told reporters that the U.S.-appointed Iraqi administration would submit a timetable to the U.N. Security Council for drafting a constitution and organizing national elections - but it might not meet the Council's Dec. 15 deadline for doing so.

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Yup...according to Bush, "things are getting better" in Iraq.

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