Iraqi charter "does not identify Iraq as an Arab country"

Parts of the Iraqi draft constitution are a "recipe for chaos", Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has said.

He told the BBC the Arab League shared Sunni Muslim concerns over federalism and the fact the charter does not identify Iraq as an Arab country.

oh, my... how v-e-e-e-ery interesting... and, of course, not a peep about this little tidbit on the u.s. msm... once again, why do we have to turn to sources outside the u.s. to get our news...? moussa goes on...

"I do not believe in this division between Shia and Sunni and Muslims and Christians and Arabs and Kurds," he said. "I don't buy this and I find in this a true recipe for chaos and perhaps a catastrophe in Iraq and around it."

The text of the draft constitution says Iraq is "part of the Islamic world and its Arab people are part of the Arab nation" - an apparent concession to non-Arab minorities like the Kurds.

Sunni negotiators wanted the text to say that Iraq as a whole is part of the Arab world.

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