The gravest crisis since the US invasion in 2003 threatens
Washington's hopes of withdrawing its 136,000 troops from Iraq.
From Reuters, 2/25/06:
http://smh.com.au/news/world/iraqi-government-warns-of-endless-civil-war/2006/02/26/1140670308182.html
Iraqi Government warns of 'endless civil war'
Iraq's Defence Minister warned yesterday of a "civil war" that "will
never end" and said he was ready to put tanks on the streets as
sectarian violence flared despite a second day of curfew in Baghdad.
Extending a traffic ban in the capital to Monday after battles around
Sunni mosques and a car bomb in a holy Shiite city, leaders scrambled
to break a round of reprisals sparked by a suspected al-Qaeda bombing
of a Shiite shrine on Wednesday.
The gravest crisis since the US invasion in 2003 threatens
Washington's hopes of withdrawing its 136,000 troops from Iraq.
"If there is a civil war in this country it will never end," Defence
Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi, a minority Sunni Muslim in the Shiite-led
interim government, told a news conference.
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