Iraqi Warns of Grave Results if U.S. Pulls Out
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The Iraqi foreign minister also asserted that Turkey had massed 140,000 troops near the northern border.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's interim president and defense minister said yesterday that withdrawing US troops from Iraq is out of the question for the time being, in a stark reminder of the danger posed by the Iraqi insurgency even after Sunday's election.
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The United States is likely to latch  on to any sign of success in Sunday's Iraqi national election  amid increasing momentum for the earliest possible withdrawal  of American troops.
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U.S. officials in Baghdad fear a new outbreak of "ethnic cleansing" between Sunnis and Shi'ites next year after the U.S. security crackdown ends, a government watchdog said on Thursday.
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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."
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A U.S. general warned Saturday that increased Sunni attacks in a province extremists call the center of their Islamic state in Iraq may delay plans to hand it over to Iraqi troops by the end of the year.
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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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Secretary-General Kofi Annan has  warned the United States, Britain and Iraq that an assault on  Falluja risked further alienating the Iraqi people and  undermining planned January elections.
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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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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's foreign minister said yesterday that the country's security forces were overstretched trying to control violence in Baghdad and that all-out civil war would be the result if American forces left, as many US Congress members have demanded.
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BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has pressed US Embassy officials in recent meetings to pull the Blackwater USA security firm out of Iraq even before the six-month deadline he initially set, a top aide to the Iraqi leader said yesterday.
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A senior U.S. commander in central Iraq said yesterday that a reduction of U.S. forces in his region this year would be "a giant step backwards," allowing insurgents to quickly return and jeopardizing the military's "tactical momentum" in reducing violence.
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Allawi warns Fallujah to give up terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or face military action. Archaeologist Michael &quot;Sonny&quot; Trimble views a mass grave site being excavated in Hatra, northern Iraq, Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- There is one matter on which US military commanders, many Iraqis, and some of the Bush administration's staunchest congressional critics agree: If the United States withdrew its forces from Baghdad's streets this fall, the murder and mayhem would increase.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said in remarks published Sunday that losing the fight against terrorism would mean the end of Iraq as a country.
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If the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq is reversed before the summer of 2008, the military will risk giving up the security gains it has achieved at a cost of hundreds of American lives over the past six months, the commander of U.S. forces south of Baghdad said Friday.
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The US envoy to Iraq warns against an over-hasty pullout of troops amid policy pledges by Democratic hopefuls.