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In December 2006, then-Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki briskly rejected characterization of the conflict as a civil war and accused Kofi Annanamong others of burnishing the image of Saddam Hussein as a viable belligerent.Various other commentators, indeed using the social scientific definitions of civil war, went back and forth about whether it really applied