CAIRO,
October 16, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – Former Iraqi premier Iyad
Allawi warned Sunday, October 16, that civil war has already started
in his country, accusing the incumbent government of allowing Shiite
militias to infiltrate security forces and accentuating a spate of
sectarian killings.
"This
is one of the stages of civil war we are right in now," Allawi
told Britain's Sunday Telegraph.
"What
you have is killings, assassinations, militias, a stagnant economy, no
services," said Allawi, who served from June 2004 until an
elected government took over in April.
The
ex-premier cautioned that the policies of his successor, Shiite
Ibrahim Al-Ja'afari, he said, could cause the break-up of Iraq into a
Shiite south, Kurdish north and Sunni central region.
Closely
allied to the US and British governments, Allawi, 60, is the most
senior Iraqi politician to have said that civil war has become a
reality.
