Two Months In and Still Foundering
Iraqi Assembly Again Fails to Elect Speaker or Fill Other Key Positions

By Caryle Murphy
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 30, 2005; Page A08

BAGHDAD, March 29 -- Iraq's new National Assembly had just convened for its second session Tuesday when a wide-girthed Shiite Muslim cleric, Hussein Sadr, appealed to his fellow deputies to quickly elect a speaker.