New wave of violence in Iraq

The World

The United States is getting out of Iraq. Washington and Baghdad have agreed that all U-S forces should leave the country by the end of 2011. But the Pentagon has warned that insurgents are trying to re-ignite the kind of sectarian violence that nearly tore Iraq apart in recent years. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the BBC’s Natalya Antelava is in Baghdad.

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