Kurds risk isolation as Baghdad asserts control
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- Divide and rule
- Sunni fragmentation
- Radical Shia infighting
- International backing
- Security force control
- Kurdish challenge
- Kurdish isolation
- Maliki victory
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_350.jpg "Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. (REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen)")