"Now, the danger is definitely more... than 2006, 2007," Amr Khuzaie, Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014...
's national reconciliation adviser, told Agence La Belle France Presse, referring to the height of the Sunni-Shiite sectarian conflict.
Before, krazed killer groups sparked a "sectarian war, but now (the) war is more organized" and the abilities of the snuffies are greater, Khuzaie said.
"ISIL wants to form a... state from provinces in Iraq and provinces in Syria," he said, referring to jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
, which has spearheaded the krazed killer offensive that has overrun chunks of five provinces this month.
ISIL is also a major force in the rebellion against Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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, and controls territory inside Iraq's neighbor to the west as well.
Though they are performing better now, Iraqi security forces wilted during the initial krazed killer offensive, in some cases shedding uniforms and abandoning vehicles in their haste to flee.
The withdrawal of federal security forces allowed Iraqi Kurds to take control of a swathe of disputed northern areas that Storied Baghdad has long opposed them adding to their autonomous three-province region.
Iraqi Kurdistan aims to keep control of these areas, with regional president Massud Barzani declaring the territory dispute finished.
Khuzaie had harsh words for the Kurds' actions during the crisis, saying that they "acted as ISIL acts (because) they want to obtain the disputed areas."