Abdul Aziz Al Hakim Says Drafters Of

Juan Cole 09/23/2003

Abdul Aziz al-Hakim Says Drafters of Constitution must be Elected

In an interview with al-Zaman, Interim Governor Council member and head of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, said that the drafters of the new Iraqi constitution must be elected. He also said that the evidence points to Saddam loyalists as the ones who set off the truck bomb that killed his brother and nearly a hundred others in Najaf on August 29.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page