An internal US government report rates the stability of six of
Iraq's 18 provinces as "serious" and another as "critical," it was reported.
The report shows the country partitioning along ethnic and religious lines, and warns of sectarian and ethnic friction even in areas US officials had portrayed as peaceful, the The New York Times reported on its website.
The daily obtained the report from "a government official in Washington who said the confidential assessment provided a more realistic gauge of stability in Iraq than the recent portrayals be senior military officers," the Times wrote.
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