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9-11-01, the world changed for America; 3-20-03, America changed for the world [audio 23min]

Four leading voices of the BBC's coverage in the last five years (Jim Muir; Magdi Abdelhadi; Lyse Doucet; John Simpson) give their varying assessments of how the Iraq invasion and subsequent insurgency developed, charting the missed opportunities and faulty assessments by the Coalition, and the murderous exploitation of Iraq's post-war frailty by Saddam loyalists and foreign Islamists. They also look at how the ripples begun in the Sunni triangle have since spread globally, affecting the political and diplomatic balance worldwide. In Programme One, BBC correspondent Jim Muir evaluates how war has changed Iraq from the beginning of the invasion to the handover of power. He looks at political developments - the split between Shia and Sunni Muslims - and conflict with the Kurds and gives his predictions for the future.
Read entire article at BBC World Service "How Iraq's War Shaped Our World"