No end in sight

Salim Lone, former spokesman for the UN mission in Iraq, The Guardian, December 19:

“The carnage in Iraq is not primarily caused by the insurgents. It is the death squads run by the Shia and Kurdish militias – according to former US diplomat James Dobbins, who is now with the Rand Corporation – who bring about a greater threat of civil war. Indeed the former US-appointed Iraqi leader Ayad Allawi has accused Jalal Talabani’s regime of committing human-rights abuses against Sunnis that are as egregious as those under Saddam Hussein.”

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