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Mayhem in Iraq Is Starting to Look Like a Civil War
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Dec 06, 2004 12:42pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Sunday, December 5, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Common wisdom holds that if American troops withdraw anytime soon, Iraq will descend into civil war, as Lebanon did in the late 1970's. But that ignores a question posed by events of recent weeks:
Has a civil war already begun?
Iraq is no Lebanon yet. But evidence is building that it is at least in the early stages of ethnic and sectarian warfare.
Armed Iraqi groups have mounted ever more deadly and spectacular assaults on fellow Iraqis, in bids to assert political and territorial dominance. This fighting is generally defined by ethnic and religious divisions: rebellious Sunni Arabs clashing with Shiite Arabs and Kurds. |
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