The Iraqi interim Consititution was signed into law today. But the day is not all sunshine in Iraq. Al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential cleric is quoted by Reuters in a statement as saying:

"This (law) places obstacles to arriving at a permanent constitution for the country that preserves its unity and the rights of its people, in all their ethnicities and sects.

Any law prepared for the transitional period will not have legitimacy until it is approved by the elected national assembly."

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Bremer looks less than sanguine in this picture taken during the signing ceremony.

In Mosul, attackers killed one IGC member, and wounded another just hours before the Constutution was signed.

Democracy can be a messy process.