Top brass warns of Iraqi civil war
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LISBON: US army chief General Richard Myers said in an interview that civil war could erupt in Iraq after forthcoming elections. However, General Myers, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, told the
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Iraq has pulled back from the brink of civil war, but recent security gains are fragile and still reversible, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, said on Saturday.
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A senior UN official has warned that Iraqi elections could not be held in the current climate of violence. Lakhdar Brahimi, a special adviser to UN secretary-general Kofi Annan
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The top US commander in Iraq has expressed concern about the ability of Iraqi forces to cope with security in the run-up to elections next month.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said   on Monday Iraq was in grave danger of descending into civil   war, as bombs killed over 30 people at a police recruitment   center in central Iraq and in a market in the north.
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Top U.S. generals warned Wednesday that violence will increase in Baghdad during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and said al-Qaida in Iraq already has intensified its assaults against American troops.
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A classified cable sent by the Central Intelligence Agency&#39;s station chief in Baghdad has warned that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating and may not rebound any time soon, according to government officials.
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A U.S. general warned Friday that insurgents may be planning "spectacular" attacks to scare voters in the three weeks before Iraq's landmark elections, and Shiite and Sunni religious leaders voiced sharply divergent views on whether the vote should be held at all.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraq's ruling Shi'ite leaders on Friday urged neighboring and Western powers to join forces to prevent their country from sliding into all-out civil war that could spread across the region.
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A senior Iraqi official cautioned Thursday against expecting "magical solutions" from the upcoming reports to Congress on military and political progress in Iraq and acknowledged the Iraqis are still not ready to defend the country on their own.
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A prominent Sunni religious leader accused in Baghdad of inciting terrorism warned Saturday that Iraq's escalating sectarian violence will spread throughout the Middle East unless the international community ends support for the Shiite-led Iraqi government.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's interim prime minister warned yesterday that insurgents are trying to foment sectarian civil war as well as derail elections, while thousands of mourners turned out for funerals in the Shi'ite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala a day after car bombs killed 67 people.
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LISBON: US army chief General Richard Myers said yesterday that civil war could erupt in Iraq after forthcoming elections.
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WASHINGTON -- The military's top generals have warned that Iraq is on the cusp of a civil war and that US troops must remain in large numbers until at least next spring. But if the winds suddenly blow a different direction, Congress is ready to celebrate with a $20 million victory party.
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America's new top general in Iraq said Thursday that force alone cannot halt the violence and the U.S. must talk to insurgent groups &#151; an old idea that's been tried before but has in the past faltered in the complex web of Iraqi politics.
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U.S. and Iraqi officials are questioning if Nuri Kamal al-Maliki can keep Iraq from descending into civil war.
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Amid allegations of war atrocities by American soldiers against Iraqi civilians, the Pentagon&#039;s top Marine flew to Baghdad to warn his troops against allowing the violence to leave them callous to human suffering and the loss of life.