U.S. intelligence says "civil war" describes Iraq
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The term "civil war" accurately describes some of the main elements of the violence in Iraq, concludes a U.S. intelligence report released on Friday.
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The core conflict in Iraq has   changed from a battle against insurgents to an increasingly   bloody fight between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims, creating   conditions that could lead to civil war, the Pentagon said in a   report on Friday.
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Sectarian violence is spreading in Iraq and the security problems have become more complex than at any time since the U.S. invasion in 2003, a Pentagon report said Friday.
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The U.S. military said on Sunday it had evidence Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq were increasingly using secret weapons stores to attack U.S. and Iraqi forces.
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NEW YORK - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday he does not expect civil war in Iraq and pointed to the recent retaking of the former insurgent stronghold of Samarra as evidence of progress in stabilizing the country before elections in January.   "I don't think it's going to happen," Rumsfeld told the Council on Foreign Relations when asked about the threat of civil war...
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U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Monday that Iraq is close to civil war, as the Bush administration stepped up diplomatic efforts to stabilize the wartorn country.
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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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President George W. Bush indicates that democracy is just around the corner in Iraq yet daily reports say the more likely event there is a spiral downward toward civil war.
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Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell said yesterday that the United States is losing what he described as a "civil war" in Iraq and that he is not persuaded that an increase in U.S. troops there would reverse the situation. Instead, he called for a new strategy that would relinquish...
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The latest Pentagon report on the detainee abuse scandal focuses on the role played by military intelligence, which arguably is the branch of the Army most challenged by the insurgency in Iraq.
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Main findings of the declassified portion of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq:
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It should not be surprising that a classified National Intelligence Estimate completed late last month projects three scenarios for Iraq over the next year and a half that range from dicey to disastrous -- from fragile stability to civil war among Sunni
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Britain's top commander in Iraq has joined a growing debate over whether Iraq has descended into civil war, insisting it was &quot;at the very best, a civil war in miniature.&quot;
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The U.S. acknowledged Friday that Iraq is spiraling downward, with sectarian animosity growing and new Iraqi troops being added too slowly in a precarious mix that could draw the country's neighbors into the violence if American troops leave.
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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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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Iraq was in the grip of a civil war as U.S. and Iraqi forces attacked insurgent bases in a bid to shore up the authority of a governmnent itself riven by factional rivalries.
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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.