Iraq may fail as a state, warn MPs: "The government's handling of the 'war on terror' received a damning appraisal this morning, as senior MPs warned that, more than a year after the invasion, Iraq was in danger of turning into a 'failed state' and that Afghanistan 'could implode'.
... the "coalition's failure to bring law and order to parts of Iraq created a vacuum into which criminal elements and militias have stepped".
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