America’s top envoy to Iraq

: “The possibility is there” for sectarian violence to lead to civil war and all-out war in the region.

A BBC reporter in Baghdad: “It gives me no pleasure today to forecast further doom and gloom here in Iraq. But, as in Iran in 1978, the facts on the street contradict the assertions of the generals, the politicians and the diplomats.”

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