Once every couple of months, there is a dispatch from Iraq in London's Independent from Patrick Cockburn. The dispatch usually comes from beyond the borders of the capital and beyond the daily headlines of car bombs, political fault-lines, and sectarian violence.
Cockburn's latest dispatch is no exception. As headlines focus on the lifting of a joint U.S.-Iraqi siege of the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, Cockburn writes:
"Baghdad is under siege. Sunni insurgents have cut the roads linking the city to the rest of Iraq. The country is being partitioned as militiamen fight bloody battles for control of towns and villages north and south of the capital."
"As American and British political leaders argue over responsibility for the crisis in Iraq," he continues, "the country has taken another lurch towards disintegration."
Link:
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2582.shtml
