Stating the Obvious
posted by The Sailor @ 6:37 PM PermalinkPentagon: Iraq in some ways in civil war
The U.S. military for the first time Wednesday said in a new report that some of the violence in Iraq can be described as a civil war.
In its bleakest assessment of the war to date, a quarterly Pentagon report said that last October through December was the most violent three-month period since 2003. Attacks and casualties suffered by coalition and Iraqi forces and civilians were higher than any other similar time span, said the report.
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A similar assessment released by the U.S. intelligence community last month came to roughly the same conclusion.
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