Laws Lag in Iraq, as Patience Wears Thin

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BAGHDAD — Popular support for Iraq’s democratic institutions is being undermined steadily by official corruption, yet the country has no comprehensive anticorruption law.



Moises Saman for The New York Times: American soldiers, in action in Baghdad, are to leave all urban areas by the end of the month.

The country’s economy is dependent almost entirely upon oil revenue, but because there is no single law regulating the industry, there is widespread confusion about investment, production and lines of authority.

And parts of northern Iraq continue to be beset by ethnic and sectarian violence that could engulf the rest of the country in a new wave of warfare, but there is little prospect of a political resolution being offered any time soon to settle competing claims in the disputed province of Kirkuk.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/wo...html?ref=world