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UN Envoy in Iraq Warns Of Civil War

HeadlineFeb 17, 2004

And the UN’s top envoy in Iraq Lakhdar Brahimi warned Iraqi leaders that the country could fall into a civil war. He said, “I have appealed to the members of the Governing Council and to Iraqis in every part of Iraq to be conscious that civil wars do not happen because a person makes a decision, 'Today, I'm going to start a civil war.’” He went on to say that civil wars erupt “because people are reckless, people are selfish, because people think more of themselves than they do of their country.” Meanwhile roadside bombs killed three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks on Monday. 541 U.S. service members have now died in Iraq. And two Iraqi children were killed and four others wounded in an explosion at a primary school in a Shia Muslim suburb of Baghdad.

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