"A top Sunni negotiator warned of dire consequences if Shiites and Kurds force through a constitution that establishes a federal system, with semi-autonomous regions in the Kurdish north and Shiite south and a comparatively weak Baghdad government."If we are pushed in this direction, then the country will continue in the situation it is in now -- no stability and no security," Saleh Mutlaq said in an interview broadcast on the Al Arabiya news channel. "We are saying if federalism is going to be approved now, it will mean the destruction of Iraq.""