European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 stars and stripes june 2007 enemy Pentagon sees simultaneous conflicts from Page 3 the Pentagon in March acknowledged for the first time that some elements of the situation in Iraq Are properly descriptive of a civil including the Harden ing of Ethan sectarian identities and the changing character of the and population people Are falling backwards to their identity groups in these purity vacuum we created for local Hoffman its a sectarian War As far As i can see from the pentagons assessment was an Echo of earlier conclusions reached by the 16 agencies within the intelligence Community in the january 2007 National intelligence on a por Tion of which was made but the document also warned that even civil War does not adequately capture the complexity of the conflict in which includes extensive Shiao shia Vio Al Aida and sunni insurgent attacks on coalition and widespread criminally motivated according to the Sev eral conflicts Are occurring simultaneously the sunni extremist insurgency against and iraqi govern ment mostly in Western and Northern sunni extremists versus shiite extremists for control of Baghdad and Dyala characterized by suicide car As people Are falling backwards to their identity groups in the Security vacuum we created for local of Frank Hoffman Center for emerging threats and opportunities kidnapping and Mur mostly of fighting is primarily Between Al Aida in Iraq and the Mahdi a Radi Cal shiite kurd and turkmen vying for control of Oil Rich Kirkuk and other cities in North Ern factional shiite fighting for control of Southern also Rich in the struggle is mostly be tween the Mahdi army and the Badr the armed Wing of the supreme Council for the islamic revolution in the country largest political Al Aida in Iraq versus sunni tribesmen who have split from the group in Western Anbar added to the mix Are Iran and the Pentagon accuses Iran of supplying shiite militias with training and including explosively formed Pene powerful Roadside bombs that can slice through the thickest officials accuse Syria of providing Safe Haven to senior and say Syria also serves As the primary con Duit for foreign sunni militants filtering into the most potent forces to emerge in Baghdad Are Al Aida in Iraq and the Mahdi both groups Are attempting to establish strongholds and expand their zones of influence in the Cap with Ordinary iraqis getting squeezed in the Middle and often fleeing for other parts of the coun try or leaving Iraq the Pentagon report any strategy for Success must be de signed to turn this trajectory email Drew Brown at mixed sunni and shiite Arab i areas Fisl claimed by sunni Arab insurgents As the islamic state of Iraq an evolving enemy in the past five years a Complex array of enemies has risen in the timeline below highlights some instances of violence Over that 2003 Jamaal a Tawhid waa jihad 2004 2005 2006 2007 Mujahideen shura Council foreign suicide bombers fad Hulln Peter and stripes
