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Violence in Iraq verges on civil war
(James Hider, The Australian, January 07, 2006)
THE wave of violence in Iraq this week that has killed more than 240 people, making it one of the darkest periods since the US-led invasion in 2003, has sparked real fears of a civil war. . . . Twin suicide bombings and a string of other attacks on Thursday killed more than 120 people, including 11 US soldiers. . . . The death toll - the highest single-day tally since mid-September - highlights the enormous task faced by Iraq totake back full responsibility for security and enable the US-led forces to withdraw. . . . Iraq's main Shia religious party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution, issued a veiled threat yesterday to Sunnis supporting the insurgency that its patience was wearing thin. . . . “This is a war against Shi'ites," said Rida Jawad al-Takia, a senior member of the party. "Apparently, to the terrorists, no Shi'ite child or woman should live. We are really worried. It seems they want a civil war." . . . The bombings shattered hopes that Iraq might start this year on a more peaceful footing than last year, allowing for a swift withdrawal of some of the 150,000 US troops in the country. . . . In all, violence has killed more than 240 people and wounded more than 280 in the five days since the year started. It is a death toll comparable with some of the nation's bloodiest weeks since March 2003. . . . This week's most deadly attack was in Ramadi, the capital of the turbulent desert province of Anbar and at the heart of the two-year insurgency. . . . Five US soldiers on a patrol were killed in Karbala. Two more US soldiers died when another bomb struck their vehicle on patrol north of Baghdad. . . . Two were killed in the suicide bombing in Ramadi while two marines were killed in separate attacks in Fallujah. . . . The sudden upsurge in violence mirrors a similar wave of attacks after the elections in January last year, when hundreds of people were killed as insurgents tried to derail the fledgling democratic process. . . . Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari said this week's violence was an attempt to thwart the political process just as the Sunni minority was being brought into a broad-based government that would weaken the Sunni-led insurgency.

posted by LoZo 10:49 AM