Is Iraq Heading Toward Civil War? -- Keith Wagstaff, The Week
April was Iraq's bloodiest month in five years. And May isn't looking much better
Last Monday, at least 95 people died in a wave of attacks across Iraq. Two days before that, 76 people were killed in Sunni areas of Baghdad. And that followed a May 15 car bomb that kicked off a day of violence that resulted in 33 deaths.
The recent surge in violence has some experts warning of a return to 2006, when the country plunged into a sectarian conflict so brutal that it was often described as a civil war. What's behind the renewed violence?
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My Comment: What's my take .... I do not see a return to the violence of 2007 .... yet. But if the security forces are not able to stop this continuing cycle of bomb attacks and shootings .... even though many Iraqis are war weary .... the sectarian hatreds are still there and it will not take much to use this sentiment to start another civil war.
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