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Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand
Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, demanded the next legislature be elected, denying Washington's crucial backing for its
plan to let regional caucuses select a provisional assembly.
According to the American plan, a transitional Iraqi
assembly - to be chosen by regional committees - would select an interim government ahead of full elections in the year 2005.
However, al-Sistani, who met Sunday with officials from the US-picked Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) in the holy Shiite
city of Najaf, said the US plan would give birth to an illegitimate Iraqi government
"This will, in turn, give rise to new problems and the political and security situation will deteriorate,"
al-Sistani said in a statement released by his office Sunday.
Al-Sistani
is the spiritual leader of most of Iraq's majority Shiites. |
". . .we have not broken faith with GOD."
sovereignty
\Sov"er*eign*ty\, n.; pl. Sovereignties. [OE. soverainetee, OF. sovrainet['e], F. souverainet['e].] The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign;
the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign;
a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into many sovereignties.
Woman desire to have sovereignty As well
over their husband as over their love. --Chaucer.
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