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Syria: Spillover into Iraq?

The threat of civil war spillover from Syria into Iraq is being greatly exaggerated by media pundits.

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Writing on his blog ‘Syria Comment’, Joshua Landis contends that “Iraq is seeing much more spillover from Syria than Lebanon.” His premise is that ‘already in response to the growing civil war in Syria, Iraqi violence has spiked and al-Qaida is resurgent there.’

However, Landis is wrong on several counts. His premise that “Iraqi violence has spiked” is based on a short-term overview of trends of violence in Iraq without looking at the bigger picture. Indeed, this issue is a common fault when it comes to media reporting on statistics of violence and civilian casualties.

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