Civil war in Iraq: External Links April-June 2006

The following are Articles and Commentary for April through June 2006 related to civil war in Iraq.

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April 2006

 * Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke, "How to Lose the War on Terror. PART 2: Handing victory to the extremists," Asia Times, April 1, 2006.
 * Jonathan Finer, "U.S. Troop Fatalities Hit A Low; Iraqi Deaths Soar," Washington Post, April 1, 2006.
 * Nehad Ismail, "Civil War in Iraq," One Thousand Reasons, April 1, 2006.
 * Patrick Cockburn, "Iraq is Splitting" (Sunni, Shia and Kurd) London Review of Books, April 2, 2006 (ZNet, April 6, 2006).
 * Edward Wong and Kirk Semple, "Civilians in Iraq flee mixed districts," The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), April 2, 2006.
 * Farah Stockman and Bryan Bender, "Iraq Militias' Wave of Death: Sectarian Killings Now Surpass Terrorist Bombings," Boston Globe (Remote Post Blog), April 2, 2006.
 * "More than 40,000 displaced, ministry estimates" IRIN News, April 2, 2006.
 * Michael Ware, "Can Iraq's Militias Be Tamed? As the killings continue, TIME meets fighters on both sides of Iraq's sectarian divide--and finds hope that all-out civil war can be avoided," TIME, April 2, 2006.
 * Sinan Salaheddin, "Violence Between Shiites, Sunnis Escalate," Associated Press (ABC News), April 3, 2006.
 * Laith Al-Saud, "Iraq is Not in Civil War (Yet). We must be sensitive to what it means to say Iraq is in civil war. It means that Iraqis are an enemy to themselves, not the occupational forces," Palestine Chronicle, April 3, 2006.
 * Ghassan Atiyyah, Opinion: "It's time to tackle Iraq's civil war," The Daily Star (Lebanon), April 3, 2006.
 * Reuel Marc Gerecht, "Can the Shiite Center Hold?" Wall Street Journal (American Enterprise Institute), April 3, 2006.
 * Martin Sieff, "A civil war by any other name," UPI (Monsters and Critics), April 3, 2006.
 * Tom Engelhardt, "The Hyperpower Hype," Mother Jones, April 3, 2006: "While Bush talked a great game when it came to exporting democracy to the Middle East, his main exports have been mayhem and ruins."
 * Frederick W. Kagan and William Kristol, "Rumors of Civil War. Iraq can be saved from civil war--if the United States keeps its nerve," The Weekly Standard, April 3, 2006.
 * Thomas Frank, "Civilians take up arms amid Iraqi violence," USA Today, April 4, 2006.
 * Robert H. Reid, "Deadly explosions rock Baghdad, Basra as political process stalls. Ten people, including mother and two sons, killed in Iraqi capital while prime minister problem looms over government," Associated Press (Oklahoma Daily), April 4, 2006. re Ibrahim al-Jaafari
 * Editorial: "Averting Civil War in Iraq," Boston Globe, April 4, 2006.
 * Editorial: "Militia problem may defy solution," Berkshire Eagle (MA), April 4, 2006.
 * "Daily War News," uruknet, April 4, 2006.
 * "Lebanon Experience Provides Civil War Pointers," Oxford Analytica (Forbes), April 4, 2006: "More than 30,000 Iraqis have been displaced as a result of sectarian violence over the last month, according to Iraqi government figures released last week."
 * Eugene Robinson, Opinion: "The Fairy Tale Doctrine," Seattle Times, April 4, 2006: "You see, if only the Iraqis can put together a government, everything will be just fine."
 * Salah Nasrawi, "Envoys: Mideast Nations Held Secret Talks," Washington Post, April 4, 2006.
 * "Arab nations plan for Iraq civil war. Diplomat: Heading off Iranian influence a topic in secret talks," Associated Press (CNN), April 4, 2006.
 * Jonathan Steele, "Iraq's interior ministry refusing to deploy US-trained police," Guardian Unlimited (UK), April 4, 2006.
 * "Arab nations plan for Iraqi civil war," ISN Security Watch, April 5, 2006.
 * Steven A. Cook, "How Not to Save Iraq," The New Republic Online, April 5, 2006.
 * Dahr Jamail, "How Massacres Become The Norm," truthout (CounterCurrents.org), April 5, 2006.
 * "40,000 Sunnis killed in Iraq during al-Jaafari’s tenure - report," Iran Focus, April 6, 2006.
 * "Erdogan: A Possible Civil War In Iraq Would Cause A Big Danger," Turkish Press, April 6, 2006. re Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
 * "Hopes for announcement on Iraq parliament dashed," Reuters 'AlterNet'', April 6, 2006.
 * Daniel Schorr, "The prospect of civil war in Iraq. A low-grade war between Sunnis and Shiites may already be in progress," Christian Science Monitor, April 7, 2006.
 * "Iraq: The Untold Story," ABC News, April 7, 2006.
 * Allen L. Roland, "The Lebanonization of Iraq. Self-delusion, falsehoods and arrogance has resulted not only in an on-going civil war but the very real possibility of the Lebanonization of Iraq,"OpEdNews, April 7, 2006.
 * "US admits to talks with Iraqi insurgents," Guardian Unlimited (UK), April 7, 2006.
 * Omar Fekeiki and Ellen Knickmeyer, "Blasts at Baghdad Shiite Mosque Kill Scores," Washington Post, April 7, 2006.
 * Tom Lasseter and Abdul Wahab Abdulrizah, "71 Iraqis killed, 140 wounded in Baghdad mosque bombing. Standoff Lingers Over Premier," Knight Ridder Newspapers (The Mercury News), April 8, 2006.
 * "Backgrounder: Major bombing attacks in Iraq since 2003," Xinhua (China View), April 8, 2006.
 * Patrick Cockburn, "Iraq three years on: Don't look away," The Independent (UK), April 8, 2006: "And don't believe all that our leaders tell us about democracy. Three years after the toppling of Saddam, Iraq is a bloody mess. Yesterday 70 people were killed in an attack on a Baghdad mosque."
 * Aamer Madhani, "By any name, civilians see civil war in Iraq," Chicago Tribune, April 13, 2006.
 * Patrick Cockburn, "Situation in Iraq Could Not be Worse," Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Palestine Chronicle), April 13, 2006: " have been covering the war in Iraq ever since it began three years ago and I have never seen the situation so grim."
 * "Iraqis Change Names to Survive Sectarian Hell," Islam Online, April 13, 2006.
 * Martin Sieff, "Analysis: On the horns of an Iraqi dilemma," UPI (World Peace Herald), April 13, 2006.
 * Opinion: "U.S., Britain can no longer control Iraq’s political life," The Olympian Online, April 13, 2006.
 * Mai Khuyen, "Political gridlock leads Iraq to brink of civil war," Viet Nam News, April 14, 2006.
 * "Iraqi Shiite mosque bombing kills 26," Agence France Presse (The Financial Express), April 14, 2006.
 * Dahr Jamail, "The Ongoing War on Truth in Iraq," truthout, April 18, 2006.
 * Antonio Castaneda, "Suggestions of ethnic cleansing raised in Iraq," Associated Press (Concord Monitor (NH)), April 19, 2006.
 * Sameer N. Yacoub, "Ethnic cleansing fears fuel clashes in Baghdad," The Herald (UK), April 19, 2006.
 * Nelson Hernandez and Bassam Sebti, "Mystery Hangs Over Baghdad Battle. Conflicting Accounts Obscure Even Identity of Combatants in 2 Days of Street Fighting," Washington Post, April 19, 2006.
 * Scott Johnson, "Phantom Force. In the 'Year of the Police,' a murky security group is mutating and growing," Newsweek (MSNBC), April 24, 2006 (issue).
 * Bob Burnett, "Iraq - Three Options, Three Problems," OpEdNews, April 26, 2006.
 * Jonathan Steele, "US allies behind Iraq’s death squads and ethnic cleansing," Khaleej Times, April 30, 2006.

May 2006

 * Anthony H. Cordesman, "Dividing Iraq: First, Think Long and Hard," ABC News, May 1, 2006.
 * Dr. Strangelove, "Joseph Biden's Iraq. Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying," TPM Cafe, May 3, 2006.
 * Senator Joseph Biden and Leslie H. Gelb, "The Bosnia solution to Iraq. We can maintain united country by decentralizing it," Houston Chronicle, May 6, 2006.
 * David Edwards, "VIDEO - Iraqi Ethnic Cleansing: 'Epidemic' Forces 100,000+ Refugees from Homes. Red Crescent Claims 'Somebody is Behind Highly Organized Ethnic War'," Veredictum.com (Brad Blog), May 6, 2006.
 * Robert Dickson Crane, "The Grand Prize for Ugly Americanism Goes to ...," The American Muslim, May 10, 2006.
 * Anthony H. Cordesman, "Outside View: Iraq's militia problem," Monsters and Critics (UK), May 18, 2006.
 * James Cogan, "Slaughter and ethnic cleansing accelerates in Iraq," WSWS, May 18, 2006.
 * Patrick Cockburn, "Iraq is disintegrating as ethnic cleansing takes hold," The Independent (UK), May 20, 2006.
 * Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, "Inside Iraq's hidden war," The Guardian (UK), May 20, 2006: "As a new 'national unity' government prepares to take power in Baghdad, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports from behind the lines of a vicious sectarian conflict rapidly spiralling towards civil war."
 * Michael Hirsh, "Washington’s New Watchword: Containment. As Iraq’s weak new government takes shape, the Bush administration’s best hope is for a non-bloodbath," Newsweek (MSNBC), May 22, 2006.
 * Howard Kurtz, "VOA's Baghdad Bureau Still Closed After Six Months," Washington Post, May 23, 2006: "But for a federally funded information service to pull out of Baghdad for such a prolonged period raises questions about the Bush administration's insistence that conditions there are gradually improving."
 * Anna Badkhen, "Violence aside, Baghdad is broken. Water runs only an hour a day, power is on for 4 hours, and sewage runs in the streets San Francisco Chronicle, May 24, 2006.
 * Gregory Djerejian, "'Last Throes' Anniversary," The Belgravia Dispatch, May 30, 2006. See "Iraq insurgency in 'last throes,' Cheney says," CNN, June 20, 2005.
 * "U.S. moves 1,500 troops into Iraq. Insurgent attacks kill 47 people," CNN, May 30, 2006.
 * Ellen Knickmeyer, "U.S. Will Reinforce Troops in West Iraq. Car Bomb Kills 2 From CBS News," Washington Post, May 30, 2006.
 * David S. Cloud, "U.S. Is Sending Reserve Troops to Iraq's West," New York Times, May 30, 2006.

June 2006

 * Anne Penketh, "State of emergency in Basra threatens British withdrawal," The Independent (UK), June 2, 2006.
 * Sinan Salaheddin, "Iraq PM Promises to Press Curbs on Violence," Associated Press (1010WINS), June 6, 2006.
 * "From the Embassy, a Grim Report. From the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, a stark compendium of its local employees' daily hardships and pressing fears," Washington Post, June 18, 2006.
 * "Iraq bomb attacks leave 16 dead," BBC, June 23, 2006.
 * Syed Saleem Shahzad, "The changing face of resistance," Asia Times, June 23, 2006.
 * Kim Gambel, "Baghdad in state of emergency. U.S. and Iraqi troops struggle with insurgents in armed street battle," Associated Press (Detroit Free Press), June 24, 2006.
 * Louise Roug and Doug Smith, "50,000 Iraqis killed in past 3 years. Figure is much higher than earlier estimates by the White House," Los Angeles Times (Houston Chronicle), June 25, 2006.
 * "Iraq PM unveils unity proposals," BBC, June 25, 2006.
 * "Violence in Iraq leaves 25 dead," BBC, June 26, 2006.
 * Rod Nordland, "Maliki's Master Plan. A national reconciliation plan for Iraq calls for a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops and, controversially, amnesty for insurgents who attacked American and Iraqi soldiers" and "'Olive Branch'. The Iraqi government has toned down the latest version of its plan for a U.S. troop withdrawal and amnesty for insurgents, but still plans to revisit the deleted clauses," Newsweek (MSNBC), June 26, 2006.
 * Solomon Moore, "Violence Bolsters Doubts on Unity Plan. Rebel attacks across Iraq kill dozens, including children, punctuating skepticism of Maliki's proposal voiced from within his Shiite bloc," Los Angeles Times; San Francisco Chronicle, June 27, 2006.
 * Editorial: "Painful Truth Beats Endless Killing," Detroit Free Press, June 27, 2006.
 * "Iraqi general says army needs more time. Puts timetable for keeping the peace at a year," Associated Press (Boston Globe), June 27, 2006.
 * Michael Georgy, "Iraq violence displaces 150,000: UN," Reuters, June 27, 2006.