More on the Awakening and violence in Iraq.

MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) put out an article "The Reawakened Spectre of Iraq Civil War" by Michael Wahid Hanna.

Thesis:
"The fate of the sahwat is but one aspect of a larger struggle over the nature of the Iraqi state and its component parts -- a struggle in which the United States is increasingly relegated to a subsidiary role. This latest phase of the intra-Iraqi wrangling that dates back almost to the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, could tip the country back into sectarian civil war and complicate Obama’s efforts to extricate the US military from Iraq."