[Mb-civic] Key Sunni Arab Group Predicates Its Participation on Troops' Leaving

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Key Sunni Arab Group Predicates Its Participation on Troops' Leaving 
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Muslim Scholars Assn. says it won't help write the constitution without a withdrawal timetable.

By Patrick J. McDonnell
Times Staff Writer

February 16 2005

BAGHDAD — An influential, hard-line Sunni Arab group declared Tuesday that it would not help draft Iraq's constitution or participate in the new government without a fixed timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces. 

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