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Th Sept 7 -

IRAQ: COLLAPSE
OR PARTITION? -

"We have three to four months to reconcile with each other. If the country doesn't survive this, it will go under."

Top Iraqi warns of civil collapse.

:: WashTimes ::

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"Federalism will cut off all parts of the country that are incubating terrorism from those that are upgrading and improving," a Shia official said. But such talk is making many Iraqi Sunnis nervous.

Iraq's senior parliamentarians are in the process of trying to work out how a federal system could work there without actual partition.

:: Oliver Poole ::
-- UK Telegraph --

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