Iraq report sees "grave and deteriorating" crisis
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U.S. troops should begin withdrawing from combat and Washington should launch a diplomatic and political push to halt a "grave and deteriorating" crisis in Iraq, a high-level panel studying the war said on Wednesday.
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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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Iraq could plunge into still deeper  chaos unless billions of dollars the international community  has pledged for rebuilding are spent quickly, the Baghdad  government will warn this week.
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A US intelligence report on Iraq describes a perilous situation in which the US has little control of the violence.
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The National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq doesn't say whether the war-ravaged nation has reached a state of civil war, but it cites Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence as the primary source of conflict there, government sources familiar with the report said Friday.
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A highly classified National Intelligence Estimate provides a pessimistic assessment about the future security and stability of Iraq.
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Congressmen are expected this week to pick apart U.S. military data suggesting attacks and civilian casualties in Baghdad have sharply decreased in recent months.
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In a report to be released today, a panel of experts assembled by the U.S. Institute of Peace calls for a 50 percent reduction in U.S. forces in Iraq within three years and a total withdrawal and handover of security to the Iraqi military in five years.
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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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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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JEDDAH, 6 December 2004 - The current situation with Iraq has all the ingredients of a long-term liability to the balance sheet of America, which some day it might be a disaster to the state of world economy.
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Iraq's Interior Ministry is regarded as "sectarian" and "dysfunctional" and the National Police should be "disbanded and reorganized," according to an independent report obtained by CNN.
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Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has described the current situation in Iraq as "dire".
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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.
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Congress is expected this week to pick apart U.S. military data suggesting attacks and civilian casualties in Baghdad have sharply decreased in recent months.
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Violence and infighting among Shi'ites in Basra are a warning that a last ditch U.S. plan to improve security in Iraq is badly flawed, a think-tank said in a report.
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Iraq is now the second most unstable country in the world, a private survey finds, its standing deteriorating from last year's fourth place on a list of the 10 nations most vulnerable to violent internal conflict and worsening conditions.