Sunni Leader: Iraq Violence May Spread Through Middle East
Iraq's Shiite prime minister, struggling to prevent sectarian violence from sending Iraq into full-fledged civil war, is facing strong criticism from top Shiite and Sunni Arab leaders alike as he prepares for a summit with President Bush next week. On Saturday, a prominent Sunni religious leader warned that Iraq's escalating sectarian violence will spread throughout the Middle East unless the international community withdraws support for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki 's government.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112606A.shtml
A Matter of Definition: What Makes a Civil War, and Who Declares It So?
"Is Iraq in a civil war?" asks Edward Wong. "Though the Bush administration continues to insist that it is not, a growing number of American and Iraqi scholars, leaders and policy analysts say the fighting in Iraq meets the standard definition of civil war. The common scholarly definition has two main criteria. The first says that the warring groups must be from the same country and fighting for control of the political center, control over a separatist state or to force a major change in policy. The second says that at least 1,000 people must have been killed in total, with at least 100 from each side."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112606B.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maliki
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112606A.shtml
A Matter of Definition: What Makes a Civil War, and Who Declares It So?
"Is Iraq in a civil war?" asks Edward Wong. "Though the Bush administration continues to insist that it is not, a growing number of American and Iraqi scholars, leaders and policy analysts say the fighting in Iraq meets the standard definition of civil war. The common scholarly definition has two main criteria. The first says that the warring groups must be from the same country and fighting for control of the political center, control over a separatist state or to force a major change in policy. The second says that at least 1,000 people must have been killed in total, with at least 100 from each side."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112606B.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maliki
rudkla - 27. Nov, 15:16
