U.K. Official: Iraq Likely To Split Up

[oberliner]

Do folks think that Iraq will literally end up splitting, a la Yugoslavia?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/03/iraq/main1861448.shtml

(CBS/AP) A confidential report from Britain's outgoing ambassador to Iraq has warned that the country is sliding toward civil war and is likely to divide eventually along ethnic lines, according to a British news report Thursday.

The parting assessment from Ambassador William Patey, who left his diplomatic post in Baghdad last week, came in a memo to top British officials, including Prime Minister Tony Blair and military commanders.

"The prospect of a low-intensity civil war and a de facto division of Iraq is probably more likely at this stage than a successful and substantial transition to a stable democracy," the BBC quoted Patey's memo as saying.