Iraq's Rampant Corruption Fueling The Insurgency

New York Times ROBERT F. WORTH and JAMES GLANZ February 4, 2006 at 09:56 PM
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Iraqi and American officials say they are seeing a troubling pattern of government corruption enabling the flow of oil money and other funds to the insurgency and threatening to undermine Iraq's struggling economy.

In Iraq, which depends almost exclusively on oil for its revenues, the officials say that any diversion of money to an insurgency that is killing its citizens and tearing apart its infrastructure adds a new and menacing element to the challenge of holding the country together.

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Sunni Chiefs Warn Of Civil War After Killings...

Associated Press ROBERT H. REID February 4, 2006 at 10:15 PM

Sunni politicians warned of civil war Saturday after the bullet-riddled bodies of 14 Sunni Arab men were found in Baghdad -- apparently the latest victims of sectarian death squads.

One person was killed and 12 injured when a mortar shell exploded near a Shiite mosque north of the capital.

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