U.S. Envoy Offers Grim Prediction on Iraq Pullout
495930
Ryan C. Crocker laid out a grim forecast of what could happen if American forces were pulled back or even withdrawn from Iraq.
410920
The U.S. ambassador to Iraq warned that it may take the U.S. government as long as two years to process and admit nearly 10,000 Iraqi refugees referred by the United Nations for resettlement to the United States, because of bureaucratic bottlenecks.
649238
A new U.S. intelligence report predicted on Friday that the situation in Iraq will deteriorate further unless efforts are made to reverse conditions, a portion of the report said.
714013
The U.S. envoy to Iraq wants to  shift $3.3 billion set aside for Iraqi water, sewer, power and  other reconstruction projects to improve security, boost oil  output and create jobs, a U.S. official said on Monday.
308933
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.
673586
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, a U.S. government official said  on Thursday.
229786
A bipartisan commission on U.S. options in Iraq will recommend a gradual reduction of American forces in Iraq and a significant diplomatic shift that enlists U.S. adversaries to stabilize the increasingly chaotic country, officials familiar with the panel's deliberations said Thursday.
471924
Ryan C. Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, gave Congress an assessment that left unmentioned some of the most troubling developments of the past nine months.
95479
A confidential report from Britain's outgoing ambassador to Iraq warned the country is sliding toward civil war and is likely to divide eventually along ethnic lines, according to a news report Thursday.
741764
WASHINGTON -- A muchanticipated US intelligence report warned yesterday that the rising violence in Iraq could permanently tear the country apart and, in the worst case, create a state of anarchy with no legitimate authority that combines "extreme ethnosectarian violence with debilitating intragroup clashes."
457999
A US review of policy on Iraq will recommend a troop pullback and a new diplomatic offensive, reports say.
640717
A U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would push the country into a civil war that would damage the whole world, the emir of neighboring Kuwait said in comments published on Thursday.
651697
Top US diplomat in Iraq warns against strategy favoured by Obama and Clinton
456271
The United States may cut off funding for Iraq's police because of its failure to punish people responsible for torture, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said in an interview published on Saturday.
662806
Iraqâs ambassador to the United States backs the Petraeus plan, calls for Iran to âstop interferingâ in his countryâs affairsâand expects a continued American presence there for a long time to come.
415549
A new National Intelligence Estimate paints a grim view of the violence and political situation facing the United States in Iraq
571624
In a farewell assessment of Iraq's security and political situation, the CIA's senior officer there wrote that a stronger government and economy are necessary to avoid descent into wider violence, a U.S. official said yesterday.