How to define a civil war? In Iraq some 3,000 people, most of them civilians, are dying every month. In terms of blood, it is a greater tragedy even than Lebanon's, and the Iraqis, unlike the Lebanese, are being killed mainly by their fellow countrymen: Sunni suicide-bombers blow their Shia compa- triots to bits; Shia militiamen have taken to slaughtering Sunni civilians for no reason other than their religious affiliation; sectarian cleansing in mixed areas is happening apace.
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