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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (18319)	3/19/2007 7:47:48 PM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

Four years after invasion, Iraqis increasingly pessimistic Associated Press LONDON — Fewer than one in five Iraqis has confidence in U.S.-led coalition troops and they are evenly split on whether they have confidence in Iraq's government, according to a poll published Monday. Iraqis are growing increasingly pessimistic according to the survey gauging public opinion four years after the U.S.-led invasion of their country. The British Broadcasting Corp., ABC News, USA Today and Germany's ARD television commissioned the poll. Only 18 per cent of Iraqis have confidence in U.S. and coalition troops, and 86 per cent are concerned that someone in their household will be a victim of violence. Iraqis do not want to see their country divided along sectarian lines, according to the poll. However, the country is becoming increasingly polarized between Sunnis and Shiites — with Sunnis appearing more pessimistic, it found. Religious differences are most pronounced in attitudes toward the execution of Saddam Hussein. Sunni respondents largely regard the manner of the former Iraqi leader's death as inappropriate and unlikely to encourage reconciliation. Shiites predominantly took the opposite view. More than 2,000 Iraqis were interviewed face-to-face by D3 Systems, a pollster specializing in conflict countries, between Feb. 25 and March 5. The margin of error was 2.5 percentage points, USA Today reported.