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CIVIL WAR n. Not a new term, but Iraq's deteriorating "sectarian violence"--to use President George W. Bush's preferred phrase--had people asking...
...Saudi government hasn't yet funneled large sums to the tribes, the source says, for fear of fueling sectarian conflict. Saudi Arabia strongly opposes partition and would prefer to see a strong central government able to offer security to all Iraq's sectarian and ethnic groups. But, the Saudi expert says, "if things really continue to spiral out of control, as they are currently, and there is more and more concrete evidence of Iranian involvement with the Shia militias and with the continuous ethnic cleansing that is currently happening, adding to a potential announcement of a U.S. withdrawal, it will...
Presently, sectarian violence is the biggest threat to stability in Iraq. Earlier this week, 70 Iraqi citizens were killed when a truck loaded with wheat exploded in a crowd of Shiites looking for work. A team of Iraqi and American epidemiologists estimates the “excess death toll” in Iraq at around 655,000 since March 2003. Because continuing to send troops to Iraq has not proven to have a stabilizing effect on the region, the Baker commission’s suggestions should be carefully considered...
...failure of the Bush administration’s current policy head-on. But it is imperative that both parties realize the salience of the report and the truth in its reasoning. An immediate withdrawal will result in a power vacuum in Iraq and would open the door to escalated sectarian violence and Saudi military support of Sunni insurgents...
...deadliest 24-hour periods for U.S. troops in the country this year. Four of the dead appeared in Brown's hospital in the heart of Anbar Province, where U.S. troops are killed in greater numbers than anywhere else in Iraq. Since June, the U.S. effort to quell sectarian violence in Baghdad has drawn thousands of troops to the country's capital, where the world's attention remains largely focused. But outside of Baghdad, U.S. forces are suffering the heaviest death toll these days as they continue to wage a grim, uncertain struggle to defeat insurgents in the predominately Sunni province...