A pair of truck bombs exploded simultaneously on Monday in the Shiite village of Khazna, about 10 miles east of Mosul, Iraq. Nawras Al-ta'ei/European Pressphoto AgencyReport Sees Recipe For Civil War In Iraq -- Washington Times
Calls military, police pawns to sectarians.
A report to be published this month by the U.S. government's prestigious National Defense University warns that the Iraqi army and police are becoming pawns of sectarian political parties -- a trend that it calls "a recipe for civil war."
The report by Najim Abed al-Jabouri, a former Iraqi mayor and police chief who helped run the first successful counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, also concludes that U.S. forces have failed to use their remaining leverage as trainers to insulate the Iraqi army and police from the influence of powerful Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim and Kurdish parties.
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