19 December, 2006
Iraq on brink of becoming failed state-report
Radical action is needed to save a "hollowed-out and fatally weakened" Iraqi state and ease violence that a new Pentagon report says is at an all-time high, a prominent think-tank warned on Tuesday. The report by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) said an international effort was needed to prevent Iraq collapsing into a "failed and fragmented state" whose Shi'ite- Sunni Arab conflict could draw in its neighbours in a proxy war.
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10 December, 2006
Shi'ites storm Sunni area of Baghdad; 2 are killed
Gangs of roving Shi'ite Muslim gunmen stormed a west Baghdad neighborhood yesterday, burning houses and killing at least two people in broad daylight, authorities said
It is wrong to punish the whole Sunni community for the Crimes of Sadams. He was dictator. He killed his Sunni Kurds too. Now there is no difference between Sadam and these Shiite fanatics.
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