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Summary

Elections in 2005 produced a permanent constitution and a broad-based but Shiiteled government that has been unwilling or unable to take major steps to reduce Sunni popular resentment and is showing signs of fragmentation. An FY2007 supplemental appropriation (P.L. 110-28) mandated Administration reports by July 15 and September 15, 2007, and a GAO report by September 1, 2007, assessing Iraqi government progress on eighteen "benchmarks" that are intended to promote political reconciliation. See CRS Report RL31339, Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security, by Kenneth Katzman.

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• RS21968

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