Civil War in Iraq.
A Strategy to tear a nation to pieces
di Flaviano Masella
a cura di Maurizio Torrealta

What's the situation in Iraq? why does the Bush Administration avoid the use of the term civil war, even if iraqis fight against other Iraqis?

According to the data provided by the United Nations, every day around 100 people die because of the sectarian violence that confronts Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.

The trend seems to go towards a worsening of the situation: in January 2007 almost 2.000 civilians lost their lives in Iraq, most of them during clashes of sectarian fight.

What is the origin of this violence? How did it escalate until bringing the country on the verge of a civil war?
The situation has come to a head after the attack against the shrine of Samarra, one the holiest sites of the Islamic Shiism. This attack was conceived to provoke retaliation by Iraqi Shiites and so it happened.

Death squads, Salafi/Wahabi hardliners close to al Qaeda and fighters of the resistance close to the old regime of Saddam Hussein, are geopardizing the multinational force led by the United States and seem to prevail on their efforts to impose some order. The American Soldiers admit that the iraqi security forces, that have been trained for years, are either incapable to face the situation or bursting with the militias they should fight.

What is the situation within each of the religious groups?How many political trends are there within the Shiites? And within the Sunnis?

In Washington Republicans and Democrats fight their own battle to decide how and when the troops will be withdrawn. Bush insists on his request to send more troops.

In Iraq the flight of the population continues. Refugees are over a million and the inhabitants of a town tend to gather, for security reasons, in homogeneous neighborhood, and the country is moving towards secession.

Will this division be the political solution to bring peace to the country, or will this violence slip out of the hands of the sorcerer's aprrentices who evoked it?