WorldTribune.com: Saudi analyst: Iran in control, Iraq a 'lost battle'

WASHINGTON — "A leading Saudi analyst has termed the three-year, U.S.-led stabilization campaign in Iraq a 'lost battle.'

Nawaf Obaid, managing director of the Saudi National Security Assessment project, said the United States has failed to win the insurgency war in Iraq. Obaid envisions the splintering of Iraq into ethnic regions, with Iran as the dominating force.

At a two-day conference on U.S.-Arab relations in Washington, Obaid, an adviser to the Saudi royal family, said violence would increase in Iraq." More....