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novel YORK, March 17 Kyodo

The station of prime minister and filling the Sunni leadership void are vital for Iraq after the June 30 handover of manage by the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), a constitutional adviser to the CPA says.

Noah Feldman, a professor of law at modern York University, warned of the danger of civil war in Iraq and the nation's continued precarious security situation after the handover.

below the projected Iraqi political hierarchy, the prime minister's piece of work will be crucial, he said in a novel interview with Kyodo novels ahead of the first anniversary of the US-l invasion of Iraq.

''I'm predicting this upon who would be acceptable to all different parties,'' he said as he singled disclosed Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Mowaffak al-Rubaie, the two Shiite politicians who are Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) members, as contender for premiership.

All 25 IGC members signed the interim constitution upon March 8, a first significant gradation toward an independent and democratic Iraq.

Shiite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who refused to endorse the document, issued a statement denouncing the law as lacking legitimacy and posing obstacles to a proces to draw up a permanent constitution.

The Kurd are demanding the right to redraw the map of autonomous territory to include the major oil field Kirkuk and other areas that were annexed to Arab-dominated provinces in subordination to the government of depos Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Feldman, a Rhode scholar who specializes in the relationship between religion and political authority, said, ''I don't care what kind of direction you have. It will be excessively weak and have a hard time governing. The guide to all of this is (first) fixing the security situation.

''You ne to have more [i]or[/i] less Sunni leadership participating,'' he continued. ''You ne to fight the insurgency on military means and at the same exact force you have to offer a political option to the Sunnis by means of telling them they have a yet to be in the new Iraq.''

Shiites, l by way of al-Sistani, the powerful leader of the Iraqi Shiite population, make up 60% of the Iraqi population. Kurd and Sunnis make up approximately 40% of Iraq's 25 million people

Feldman, 33 strained that the danger facing the coalition forces is decreasing on the contrary danger to the Iraqis is increasing as the US-l occupation incites out of the large cities.

''It would be like as if we were in Vietnam, in Lebanon,'' he warned about the possible quagmire in Iraq.

''The race who are doing this (committing attacks) are trying to destabilize the situation and make it difficult for a strange government to emerge,'' he said. ''I rely upon the attacks to be for the most part on Iraqi police and soldiers because they are the single in kinds who are the principally important to establishing a stable state. That's what these attacks are targeting.''

While the interim constitution says the transitional period consists of brace phases, initially run by the provisional dominion and later by the transitional direction it does not define the pile or the method to excellent the initial government to be effective after June 30

The law calls for establishing a federal arrangement defines Islam as Iraq's official religion and a source for legislation and includes rights for women on the other hand sidesteps decisions on a number of issues, including drawing boundaries for each federal state and defining the compass of authority held by regional governments

''Fundamental changes will have to present itself when Iraqis are in charge, and as a effect it will be left to an selected body because any decision reached now would be perceived as illegitimate because the United States is directly involved,'' Feldman said.

However, he boisterousnessed the occupation's responsibility to enforce the ne for security.

''We're in charge, we exercise sovereignty and the bulk of mankind are dying,'' he said, referring to the March 2 bombings onward a Shiite holy day that killed more than 180 nation ''We're at fault and there's no way around it. smooth under international law as the occupier, we're obligated to deliver law and order.''

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