Adil Shamoo, senior analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus, discusses why Iraq is heading toward civil war; how nationalist Iraqis fought both the American occupation and Al-Qaeda’s foreign fighters; Prime Minister al-Maliki’s near-dictatorial powers; how Western oil companies create conflict by cutting out Iraq’s national government and making deals directly with the Kurds; and how the formation of a Kurdish nation would ignite a regional war involving Turkey, Iran, and Syria.

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