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Iraqi Assembly Meets for the First Time
Baghdad, Iraq - Seven weeks after Iraqis defied insurgent threats to take part in the country's first free election in decades, and as a series of explosions shook the heart of the capital, members of the constitutional assembly convened here today for the first time.
The members of the 275-seat newly elected National Assembly walked quietly into the heavily fortified convention center on the west bank of the Tigris River, with little pomp but with a solemnity indicating they understood the gravity, and the immense difficulty, of their duties.