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Article: Is Iraq in midst of civil war?; Some are hesitant to label what is happening there
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- March 16, 2006
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Deep within the Pentagon, they're trying to
piece together a picture of an Iraqi civil war. What would it look
like? Donald Rumsfeld asks.
Here on the streets of Baghdad, it looks like hell.
Corpses, coldly executed, are turning up by the minibus-load.
Mortar shells are casually lobbed into rival neighborhoods. Car bombs
are killing people wholesale, while assassins hunt them down one by
one.
Is it civil war? "In Iraq it is no longer a matter of definition -
'civil war' or 'war' or 'violence' or 'terrorism.' It is all of the
above," said one familiar with all of the above, Beirut scholar-
politician Farid Khazen, a witness to Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war.
Phebe Marr, a ...