Brahimi's Trump Card?

The UN envoy to Iraq seems to have been out-manouevered, yet now we have an increasingly vocal Iraqi government demanding true sovereignty, with the US forced to tag along, and now this:

"The United Nations envoy in Baghdad urged Iraqis on Wednesday to press on with setting up a broad parliamentary-style body to help oversee the new interim government that is charged with organizing elections.

Lakhdar Brahimi, who played a mediating role in setting up the government announced on Tuesday to take over from the U.S. occupation authority, said a group of about 60 leading Iraqis would criss-cross the country this month to organize a planned national conference in July that would select the new chamber.

'It's more than a consultative body but it's less than a legislative body,' he told a news conference as he laid out the next step on the path to Iraq's first free elections in January under a transition process agreed with the United States. "