UK Independent: Iraq's "Election Marks The Final Shipwreck Of American And British Hopes Of Establishing A Pro-Western Secular Democracy

The Independent Patrick Cockburn December 21, 2005 at 10:35 AM
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Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions.

Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist candidate backed by the US and Britain was humiliatingly defeated.

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