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Article: Civil war in Iraq is still a real possibility REALPOLITIK
- Article from:
- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- August 23, 2009
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ISN'T it strange the way we seem to have taken our eye off the
ball when it comes to events in Iraq?
Preoccupied with the growing violence and rising British casualty
rate in Afghanistan, suddenly it seems we have no appetite for news
coming out of places like Baghdad, Basra, Kirkuk and Mosul. It was
not always like this, of course. Barely a few years ago Afghanistan
was dubbed the "forgotten war" as world attention focused on
defeating the insurgency in Iraq.
Today it is a different story, with our coverage only picking up
when the death toll cannot be ignored. This was graphically
illustrated last week when TV pictures showed the effects of bomb
and mortar attacks that killed 95 people and ...