BBC: Bombs push Iraq towards the abyss

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4902888.stm

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From inside, Iraq's deputy interior minister said it started a year ago, while the former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi made similarly gloomy pronouncements last month.

Most Iraqi political figures - including the interior minister - have dismissed such talk.

However, some say they are partly responsible for making the situation worse, because of their continued delay in forming a government four months after elections.

But now one of the more influential analysts watching Iraq has decided that civil war is the right definition for what is going on now.

"To all intents and purposes, Iraq is in a civil war," Dr Toby Dodge, a veteran Iraq watcher based at London University's Queen Mary College, told the BBC.

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