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This week two years ago, while Allied tanks rumbled into Baghdad, the collapse of Saddam's infamous statue symbolised the fall of a dictatorship. But have the two intervening years brought Iraqis freedom? Ploughing through political, social and economic territory, analysts and first-hand witnesses provide Al-Ahram Weekly with a balance sheet of the occupation
The spectre of sectarianism The future of Iraq depends not on America but what Iraqis can do to pull the nation that is theirs from the brink of sectarian breakdown, writes Ghassan Al-Atiyah
Identity politics Collapse of the state, revival of ethnic and sectarian affiliations and the fragmentation of authority are but some of the characteristics of the new Iraq, writes Hussein Shabaan
The resistance will go on Resistance remains a national calling for all Iraqis in the face of US designs, writes Mousa Al-Husseini
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