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Sat 09 Sep 2007Asmal says truth body might not work in NINorthern Ireland must be extremely careful in how it addresses the past or else the current "tender" power-sharing arrangement could be jeopardised, former South African minister Prof Kader Asmal has warned.Prof Asmal said at a conference in Belfast yesterday that politicians, human rights activists and others must always be mindful that the context of the truth commission in South Africa was markedly different to the situation applying in Northern Ireland.