ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 23 (AFP) - 16h28 - Arab League chief Amr Mussa called for a new Iraq Sunday as he addressed the Kurdish parliament during a landmark visit aimed at drumming up support for a national reconciliation conference.

"I hope stability and security will reign in Iraq, and that fraternity and cooperation will prevail between its different communities," he told lawmakers who greeted his speech with applause and a standing ovation.

The head of the 22-member Arab League had arrived the day earlier to meet with regional president Massoud Barzani in a symbolic visit that marked Arab League recognition of the Kurdish autonomous region, and government spokesman Leith Kubba said he would extend his visit to Iraq by one or two days.

The Arab League chief said he was "happy to hear the Iraqi national anthem and the Kurdish anthem" played as the parliament session opened.

"It is an important message to the Arab world from Kurdistan about the new Iraq," he stressed.

"Iraqi Kurdistan is an important part not only of Iraq, but also of the Arab world and the Middle East."

Mussa, on his first trip to Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, said Saturday he had won crucial backing from Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani for his planned attempt to reconcile Iraq's divided communities.

Mussa met last week with the preeminent Sunni religious body, the Committee of Muslim Scholars, and several members of the government in Baghdad.

Shiite radical leader Moqtada Sadr rejected Mussa's overtures, however, continuing to insist the League clearly condemn insurgent attacks before he would talk with the pan-Arab body which wants to hold a preparatory conference in Cairo on November 15 ahead of full talks in Iraq.

Mussa told the Kurds: "Each party would be able to freely express their views on the new Iraq."

In Baghdad, Kubba reiterated the government's insistence that groups which espouse violence be excluded.

In London, the Sunday Telegraph published a poll that suggested 45 percent of Iraqi citizens support attacks and fewer than one percent think allied military involvement is helping to improve security in their country.

The nationwide survey, undertaken for the British Ministry of Defence in August, underscored "for the first time the true strength of anti-Western feeling in Iraq after more than two-and-a-half years of bloody occupation," the newspaper said.

The poll also reported 65 percent of Iraqis in Maysan province, which is one of four provinces patrolled by British troops, believe that attacks against coalition forces are justified.

Thirteen Iraqis, including two small children, were killed on Sunday in a series of attacks across the country that also wounded more than 30 people, among them five US soldiers, security sources said.

In ex-dictator Saddam's home village of Tikrit, a police colonel and his two children were killed along with two passers-by in a bomb explosion that targeted the police official, an Iraqi security source said.

In central Baghdad, a car bomb slammed into a police patrol, killing four people, including at least one police officer, and wounding 13 others, security sources said.

Three bombs took aim at US convoys in eastern and northern Baghdad, and a US military spokesman said five soldiers had been injured.

On Saturday, the US military announced the death of four troops soldiers in Iraq, moving the overall toll since the 2003 invasion closer to the psychologically significant total of 2,000.

Iraqi electoral officials released partial results of last week's vote on a draft constitution, while counting continued for the last five provinces.

Voters in only one province have rejected the draft charter by a potentially blocking two-thirds majority, according to the figures, but two provinces with large Sunni Arab populations, among whom opposition to the text runs high, are among those that have yet to return their results.

Under rules for the October 15 referendum, the constitution fails if it is rejected by a two-thirds majority in any three of Iraq's 18 provinces, though that still appeared unlikely.

The commission said the remaining five provinces would release their results in the next few days.

The US-based Time magazine also said that Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi is to visit Washington in November at the invitation of US Treasury Secretary John Snow, and could meet with US national security adviser Stephen Hadley and perhaps US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The visit is likely to mark a political rehabilitation in the United States of the controversial former Iraqi exile leader, whose Baghdad headquarters were raided in 2004 and who was accused of passing on secret information to Iran.