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From: DuckTapeSunroof	3/14/2007 6:31:14 PM
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Pentagon: Iraq in Some Ways in Civil War By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS March 14, 2007 Filed at 5:55 p.m. ET nytimes.com WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military for the first time Wednesday said in a bleak new report that some of the violence in Iraq can be described as a civil war. In a newly negative assessment of the war to date, a quarterly Pentagon report said that last October through December was the most violent three-month period since 2003. Attacks and casualties suffered by coalition and Iraqi forces and civilians were higher than any other similar time span, the report said. Members of the Bush administration have been loath to say that the U.S. military is struggling to quell a civil war, and the report agreed that the term does not capture the complex situation there. But it added, ''Some elements of the situation in Iraq are properly descriptive of a 'civil war,' including the hardening of ethno-sectarian identities and mobilization, the changing character of the violence and population displacements.'' A similar assessment released by the U.S. intelligence community last month came to roughly the same conclusion. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press

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