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Hello, today the consequences of history,

how the Western powers have contributed to today's violence in Iraq.

The problems mount up for Kenya, rising political tension, growing extremism, tourism down a third this month alone.

We've the story of a Burmese hijack and how it's been kept quiet for 60 years, and why in

Southern Spain they're celebrating an Englishman who described their town as

grey and gloomily Welsh.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has rejected calls for a national salvation

government to help counter the offensive by jihadist-led Sunni rebels. The

U.S. has told Mr. Al-Maliki that Iraq needs an administration that represents all its

religious and ethnic groups. However, in his weekly television speech the Prime Minister

said Iraq was facing a fierce terrorist onslaught.

Fergal-Keen, who reported on the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003,

has been considering how much the West should bear responsibility for today's violence in Iraq.

That first morning the driver was fast asleep on the roof of the car, his snores a wall of noise

rolling across the desert stillness. I couldn't sleep. He was loud enough

to drown out the noise of the Bedouin who were looting the abandoned Iraqi border post, loud

enough to drown out the sound of the American commandos who occupied the post at dawn

after the Bedouin had fled. That day, my first in Iraq is forever fixed in memory.

Baghdad had just fallen to the Americans.

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