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The Bleeding of Iraq and the Rising Insurgency

Dr Fawaz Gerges
ISPU Adjunct Scholar

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Things are not going well in Iraq. The government handover of power has neither moved the country closer to peaceful democracy nor improved a volatile security situation that has turned Iraq into a living hell. Suicide bombings and attacks against Iraqi officials and civilians, coalition forces, foreigners, and the infrastructure continue unabated. The 17-month-old guerrilla insurgency is getting stronger, sophisticated and more widespread by the day and appears to be reaching a new level of intensity. ISPU Adjunct Scholar Fawaz Gerges examines the options for the United States.

This policy brief is based on extensive interviews with Iraqi opinion makers, activists, and researchers.