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19 Mar, 2013

A Witness to 4 Iraqi Wars, but No More – NYTimes.com

Today, three years after most American soldiers withdrew from Iraq, we see that the whole country is on the brink of another round of sectarian war. Once again there are assassination campaigns by killers using silenced weapons, threats to force Sunni and Shiite families from their neighborhoods, and car bombs striking here and there all around the country. As the political quarrel among Iraqi leaders continues, I cannot help but think how similar it all is to the 2006-7 civil war.

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