Baghdad is under siege

By Patrick Cockburn in Arbil, Northern Iraq

Sunni insurgents have cut the roads linking the city to the rest of Iraq. The country is being partitioned as militiamen fight bloody battles for control of towns and villages north and south of the capital.

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Saudi study: Iraq a ‘lost battle’:
By Stephen Collinson

Damning analysis says all indications point to current state of civil war, disintegration of Iraqi state.

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