:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 12.04.2006 ::
:: Civil War? ::
UN Secretary Says Iraq Is Engulfed in Deadly Civil War
New York Times
BAGHDAD — Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, said Sunday that Iraq had descended into a civil war that was even deadlier and more anarchic than the 15-year sectarian bloodshed that tore apart Lebanon.
“When we had the strife in Lebanon and other places, we called that a civil war; this is much worse,” Mr. Annan said in an interview with the BBC.
In making his remarks, Mr. Annan joined a growing number of foreign and Iraqi leaders, policy makers and news organizations who say that Iraq is in the grip of civil war. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said last Wednesday at a conference in the United Arab Emirates that Iraq is in a civil war. A former Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi, said the same last March.
The Bush administration has not characterized the conflict as a civil war.
The debate over the term raged last week in the United States, after NBC and other major news organizations said they were ready to apply it to Iraq. Scholars say that the widening sectarian conflict meets the common scholarly definition of a civil war and that when measured by deaths per year, Iraq is among the top civil wars of the last half-century. The civilian death toll is believed to be at least 50,000.
Read more here.
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