US report warns of Iraq 'peril'
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A US intelligence report on Iraq describes a perilous situation in which the US has little control if the violence continues.
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A new National Intelligence Estimate depicts an Iraq involved in a multi-faceted struggle among religious groups and sects and says that without a sharp reversal in the violence and changes among the Shiite, Sunni and Kurd leadership, the situation could further deteriorate.
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Top U.S. intelligence officials told a Senate committee today that Iran is likely to develop a nuclear weapon by the early to middle part of the next decade and that security and political trends in Iraq are moving in the wrong direction, with Iraqi leaders facing nearly impossible challenges in curbing sectarian violence that has become "self-sustaining."...
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A top US commander in Iraq warned Iran and other countries against underestimating the US military because its forces are engaged in two major wars, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Iraqi president on Sunday sharply criticized the bipartisan U.S. report calling for a new approach to the war, saying it contained dangerous recommendations that would undermine his country's sovereignty and were "an insult to the people of Iraq."
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On his first day as defense secretary, Robert Gates warned Monday that failure in Iraq would be a "calamity" that would haunt the United States for years. Underscoring eroding security there, a Pentagon report said the number of insurgent and sectarian attacks had risen to the highest level in years.
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The US Secretary of State warns of more violence in Iraq as elections approach, after a new suicide attack.
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A US intelligence examination of the effects of the Iraq war reportedly says it is making the threat of terror worse.
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A U.S. intelligence report before  the Iraq war warned that an American invasion could lead to  rogue elements fighting the new Iraqi government and U.S.  forces, sources familiar with the report said on Tuesday.
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U.S. intelligence experts painted a gloomy picture of Iraq, saying in a report seen on Friday that sectarian bloodshed had surpassed the threat from al Qaeda and warning of the consequences of a rapid U.S. withdrawal.
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A report due out today from the chief U.S. weapons inspector for Iraq is expected to undercut a key part of the rationale for war.
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U.S. intelligence has concluded key elements of Iraq's violence could be described as "civil war," a term Bush administration officials have been reluctant to use, a new report said on Friday.
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The United States risks being stuck in a "quagmire" in Iraq unless the Bush administration changes strategy, a Democratic member of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group said on Saturday.
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The US should reduce troop presence in Iraq so as not to appear an "occupying force", a key report says.
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A newspaper quotes a US Army official as saying the military has made a &quot;mediocre&quot; effort in Iraq, and remains in peril of losing the war.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said  on Tuesday the United States cannot wilt in the face of the  Iraqi insurgency and suggested critics of the war in Iraq were  becoming rattled and defeatist.
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BAGHDAD, July 9 -- Iraq's foreign minister on Monday said the country may fracture into separate parts and its government could collapse if the U.S. begins withdrawing troops too quickly -- a warning delivered as debate over war policy intensifies in the White House and Congress.