Iraq report sees "grave and deteriorating" crisis
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The United States should begin to withdraw forces from combat and launch a diplomatic push, including Iran and Syria, to prevent "a slide toward chaos" in Iraq, an elite panel recommended on Wednesday.
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The situation in Iraq is deteriorating  and unlikely to improve any time soon, according to a  classified cable and briefings from the CIA, The New York Times  reported on Tuesday.
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U.S. intelligence experts painted a gloomy picture of Iraq, saying in a report seen on Friday that sectarian bloodshed had surpassed the threat from al Qaeda and warning of the consequences of a rapid U.S. withdrawal.
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The Iraq war has strained U.S. forces to the point where they could not fight another large-scale war, according to a survey of military officers.
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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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It gives a bleak assessment of the trajectory in Iraq and suggests that most U.S. combat troops should be withdrawn in the next 16 months
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The State Department's resources and morale are being drained by the need to keep providing personnel for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an independent report issued yesterday.
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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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Analysis: It has been clear for some time that the U.S. is not in control of events in Iraq. But the latest sectarian bloodshed suggests that even help from Iran and Syria  may not be enough to stop the slide into chaos
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A bleak portrait of the political and security situation in Iraq released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office sparked sharp protests from the top U.S. military command in Baghdad, whose officials described it as flawed and "factually incorrect."
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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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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the government would study &quot;in a very serious way&quot; a report that around 100,000 civilians in Iraq had died as a result of the March 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
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A report by an independent commission says that it will be at least 12 to 18 months before Iraqâs army and police can take charge of the countryâs security.
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Yet it&#39;s clear chaos has escalated and violence is becoming more co-ordinated. Some experts are calling Iraq a potential &quot;super rogue state&quot; and the next Lebanon.
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An urgent overhaul of US policy on Iraq is needed to stop "a slide towards chaos", says a major report.
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WASHINGTON -- The effort to resurrect vital government services in Iraq has been hampered by ethnic and sectarian purges among the ranks of civil servants, a high turnover rate for senior administrative officials, and a lack of comprehensive planning on the part of both Iraqis and the United States, according to an audit by the special inspector general for Iraq ...
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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.