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News analysis: Sectarian strife in Iraq imperils entire region - -

By Ellen Knickmeyer

Sectarian Strife in Iraq Imperils Entire Region, Analysts Warn

Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, November 16, 2006

BAGHDAD -- While American commanders have suggested that civil war is possible in Iraq, many leaders, experts and ordinary people in Baghdad and around the Middle East say it is already underway, and that the real worry ahead is that the conflict will destroy the flimsy Iraqi state and draw in surrounding countries.

Whether the U.S. military departs Iraq sooner or later, the United States will be hard-pressed to leave behind a country that does not threaten U.S. interests and regional peace, according to U.S. and Arab analysts and political observers.

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The coffin of Marine Cpl. Michael H. Lasky, 22, of Sterling, Alaska, arrives at Arlington National Cemetery in the back of a pickup truck as requested by his family. Lasky and Marine Lance Cpl. Minhee "Andy" Kim, 20, of Ann Arbor, Mich., became the 274th and 275th service members killed in the Iraq war to be buried at Arlington. Story, B5. (By Gerald Martineau -- The Washington Post)