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...commander in Iraq, told Rumsfeld that Shi'ite death squads were catalyzing a surge in sectarian violence. And General John Abizaid, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, told a Senate committee in Washington last week that if the sectarian violence continued to spiral, Iraq "could move toward civil...
...senior analyst Negroponte has in place to oversee a new estimate. He's Tom Fingar, a former State Department intelligence officer, who disagreed with the old pre-war estimates that warned of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Fingar won't pull punches in assessing whether Iraq is slipping toward civil war, a congressional source says, but he'll be fair in his conclusions...
...does predict a civil war for Iraq, Democrats probably won't have the analysis as ammunition before the November congressional elections. Negroponte has up to 90 days to deliver the report after Bush signs the defense bill into law, likely at the end of September. Negroponte's spokeswoman did not say when he will complete the document. Even so, war critics believe the secret estimate (an unclassified summary must also be released) will have a powerful impact whenever it's finished. Abizaid's testimony was "extraordinary," says a Senate Democratic aide, but news coverage of it "disappears the next...
...Lebanese Army is weak not just by neglect, but also by design, however. Like the Lebanese government, the military allocates power and position on the basis of maintaining the delicate sectarian consensus that ended decades of bloody civil war. Domestic political stability rather than military effectiveness has been the guiding principle of its development. "The Lebanese army is a mirror of all the country; its job is to maintain stability in the country," said Retired General Salim Abu Ismail, a former military attache to Washington and the managing editor of Al Defaiya Defense Magazine. "During the Civil War, every sect...
...government could order the Army to move against it. "The Lebanese Army will never be given any orders to disarm any militia, especially under these circumstances when Hizballah is being attacked by Israel," said Gen. Ismail. "The Lebanese army is not going to fight other Lebanese. There would be civil...