Iraq on brink of becoming failed state: report
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Radical action is needed to save a "hollowed-out and fatally weakened" Iraqi state and ease violence that a new Pentagon report says is at an all-time high, a prominent think-tank warned on Tuesday.
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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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A U.S. intelligence report prepared for President Bush in July offered a gloomy outlook for Iraq through the end of 2005, with the worst scenario being a deterioration into civil war, government officials said on Thursday.
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Iraq could splinter into civil war and  destabilize the whole region if the interim government, U.S.  forces and United Nations fail to hold the ring among factions  struggling for power, according to a British thinktank.
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The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating. There is no path that can guarantee success, but the prospects can be improved.
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The U.S.-backed government of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is losing serious ground, poll shows.
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A document purportedly captured in an al-Qaida hideout portrays the insurgency in Iraq as being in &quot;bleak&quot; shape, saying that it is losing strength and proposing ways to stir up trouble between the U.S. and Iran to divert American attention.
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A long-awaited National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, presented to President Bush by the intelligence community yesterday, outlines an increasingly perilous situation in which the United States has little control and there is a strong possibility of further deterioration, according to sources...
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BAGHDAD, July 9 -- Politicians from Iraq's major parties and ethnic groups said Monday that Iraq's government could collapse, plunging the nation into full-blown civil war and sparking regional conflict, if the United States were to begin withdrawing troops too quickly.
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One of the most serious questions raised by the debacle in Iraq is whether it has crippled the ability of the world&#39;s leading powers to contain dangerous states.
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A respected think tank concluded Wednesday that the United States has lost influence as a result of failings over the Iraq war, encouraging its detractors &#151; including Iran and Russia &#151; and jeopardizing stability in Asia and the Middle East.
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U.S. intelligence officials prepared a  report for President Bush in late July presenting a gloomy  outlook for Iraq, saying that at worst the country might  descend into civil war, The New York Times said on Thursday.
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Iraq has emerged as the world's second most unstable country, behind Sudan, more than four years after President George W. Bush ordered the U.S. invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, according to a survey released on Monday.
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A country in chaos, a terrorized population under siege in neighborhoods polarized on sectarian lines or on the move in their hundreds of thousands to escape worsening violence. That was the picture of Iraq depicted in a new U.N. human rights report on Wednesday.
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Intelligence reports written before the Iraq war warned an invasion could lead to insurgency, the New York Times reports.
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U.S. officials say time is running out for Iraq to root out sectarian militias and purge ministries of corrupt officials.
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A US intelligence report on Iraq describes a perilous situation if the level of violence continues unchecked.