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It Is a Civil War
Lt. Colonel Gian P. Gentile writes for The Washington Post: "Some say that Iraq cannot be in a civil war because the country's major institutions are not fighting each other with conventional military... ...
US Officials: Militias Are Main Threat to Iraq
Mark Seibel and Leila Fadel of McClatchy Newspapers report, "Despite President Bush's recent insistence that al Qaida in Iraq is the principal cause of this country's violence, senior American military... ...
Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran
U.S. troops detain four insurgents smuggling Iranian weapons in Baghdad The detainees are believed to be members of a "secret cell terrorist network known for facilitating the transport of weapons and... ...
Baghdad Becomes Deadlier Battleground for US Troops
There is no sign that the new US security push in Baghdad is accomplishing its main purpose: to create an island of stability in which Sunni Arabs, Shiite Arabs and Kurds can learn to run the country together.... ...
US Long Worried That Iran Supplied Arms in Iraq
Flynt Leverett, a senior fellow at the New American Foundation, and a Middle East specialist who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and on the staff of the National Security Council, said he believed... ...
Iraq Crackdown "Doomed to Fail"
Iraqi Shiite militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr says the US-backed security crackdown in Baghdad is doomed to fail and that no security plan would work unless Iraq's government assumed full responsibility... ...
Justifications for Attacking Iran on Shaky Ground
The Bush administration is stepping up its confrontation with Iran, accusing the Islamic regime in Tehran of supplying arms to Shiite Muslim militias in Iraq for attacks on US forces. But the White House's... ...
How America's Conflict with Iran Will Begin
Translated By Mutasem Sinnokrot “The first open signs of an American collision with Iran will occur in Iraq, after the liquidation of the major [Shiite] militias and paramilitaries allied with them.” http://www.ichblog .eu/content/view/152/2/ ...
U.S. Launches Task Force 16 to "Block Iranian Influence" in Iraq
The special operations mission, known as Task Force 16, was created late last year to target Iranians trafficking arms and training Shiite militia forces. The operation is modeled on Task Force 15, a clandestine... ...
Nouri al-Maliki can see what is coming
By Patrick J. Buchanan Put me down on Maliki's side. It is he who is taking the real risk here – with his life. It is he who is likely to learn what Kissinger meant when he observed that in this world,... ...