Well I didn’t see this posted here and I though some of you might be interested. I thought this reported did a good job characterizing the insurgency Iraq:


The Iraqi Insurgency and the Risk of Civil War:

By Anthony H. Cordesman Center for Strategic and International Studies

http://www.csis.org/component/option...,view/id,2789/

Synopsis:
Attention has focused on the possibility of a civil war in Iraq since the recent bombing of a Shi’ite shrine there. Anthony Cordesman, who holds CSIS’s Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, examines this topic more closely in a new analysis of the insurgency’s major actor