Iraq analysis

[Al-khiyal]

Top Iraqi general killed by sniper

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Hundreds of Iraqi academics and professionals assassinated by death squads

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Hundreds of Iraqi academics and professionals assassinated by death squads

‘Driller killers’ spread a new horror in Iraq

Iraqi jail torture 'increasing'

[nesreen]

There are over 300 Scientists and professors who had been abducted and killed in iraq . now who would want to cripple Iraq and kill its professors and intellectuals . certainly not iraqis since iraq will take too long to stand on its feet .. could it be its enemis to make sure iraq wont be able to stand for decades , thus permanent disabled next to nuclear Israel ?
Could it be another Phonenix Program Vietnamese Style ???

http://www.thememoryhole.org/phoenix/

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The US are exposing their flawed "democracy spreading"

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At least 8,000 members of U.S. military desert during Iraq war

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BAGHDAD — The top U.S. envoy to Iraq said Monday that the 2003 toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime had opened a "Pandora's box" of volatile ethnic and sectarian tensions that could engulf the region in all-out war if America pulled out of the country too soon.

In remarks that were among the frankest and bleakest public assessments of the Iraq situation by a high-level American official, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the "potential is there" for sectarian violence to become full-blown civil war.

For now, Iraq has pulled back from that prospect after the wave of sectarian reprisals that followed the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite Muslim shrine in Samarra, he said. But "if another incident [occurs], Iraq is really vulnerable to it at this time, in my judgment," Khalilzad said in an interview with The Times.

Abandoning Iraq in the way the U.S. disengaged from civil wars in Lebanon, Afghanistan and Somalia could have dramatic global repercussions, he said.

"We have opened the Pandora's box and the question is, what is the way forward?" Khalilzad said. "The way forward, in my view, is an effort to build bridges across [Iraq's] communities."

Khalilzad's central message that the United States cannot immediately pull out of Iraq jibed with Bush administration policy. But he offered a far gloomier picture than assessments made in recent days by U.S. military spokesmen....

Envoy to Iraq sees threat of wider war