AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE , A national unity government must be formed promptly in Iraq to avoid a civil war but if one does break out the United States will rely on Iraqi security forces to contain it, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said March 9.
Rumsfeld said sectarian tensions are high in the wake of a bombing of a Shiite mosque February 22, but the country has not descended into full-scale civil war.
