US/IRAQ: Lasting security gains will remain elusive
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- Ongoing insurgency
- Going to ground
- The two insurgencies
- Shia antagonists
- Sadr's ceasefire motives
- Intact Mahdi army
- Rival factions
- Sunni insurgents
- Co-opting tribes
- Reckoning postponed?
- Looming problems
- Displaced insecurity
- Returning refugees
- Fracturing national identity
- Kirkuk tinderbox
- Government weakness
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