Unlike previous reports, the one released yesterday depicted some aspects of the Iraq conflict as a civil war."Some elements of the situation in Iraq are properly descriptive of a 'civil war,' including the hardening of ethno-sectarian identities and mobilization, the changing character of the violence, and population displacements," it said, echoing the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq released in January.
"Illegally armed groups are engaged in a self-sustaining cycle of politically motivated violence, using tactics that include indiscriminate bombing, murder, and indirect fire to intimidate people and stoke sectarian conflict," the Pentagon report said.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Not even the Pentagon can deny it any longer
Iraq is officially in a Civil War.
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