A senior member of Iraq's Governing Council has said an agreement has been reached with the country's top Shiite Muslim cleric on the terms of an interim constitution, and that the document would be signed tomorrow.
The interim constitution was to have been signed on Friday, paving the way for an interim government in Iraq and the withdrawal of US troops, but Shiite Muslims withdrew their support at the last minute.
The document had been hailed by council members and US overseer in Iraq, Paul Bremer, as one of the most progressive in the Middle East, laying the foundations for direct elections before the end of January 2005.
The interim paper provides for a federal state with two official languages, where Islam will be a source of legislation but not the basis for it.
Ahead of the planned signing, guerrillas fired 10 rockets at the headquarters of the US led administration in Baghdad this evening .
The blasts echoed across the capital but the US Army said there were no serious injuries.
