[Summary of an article in today's WP from Slate's Today's Papers newsletter:]
<quote> Each day, activists fan out to collect signatures for a petition rejecting the interim constitution, which Sistani opposes. Thousands of those signatures are scanned in nightly and sent by CD to headquarters in Najaf. Of course, Iraqi politics are still a little more lurid than the U.S.'s. According to one Shiite activist, a third of the people wanted to sign with pens dipped in their own blood; Sistani, he said, "has refused people doing this. He said it's disgusting, and he doesn't accept it." <unquote> Full WP article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31905-2004Mar28.html
