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...Everybody has a civil war. We had ours. We got stronger. Maybe they need to have theirs and get it over with." JOSEPH HAMLIN, U.S. Marine lance corporal stationed in Ramadi, on Iraq's escalating Sunni-Shi'ite violence...
While Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pursues the logic of security plans and national reconciliation, a different and deadly logic prevails on the streets of Baghdad. A rapid back-and-forth of Sunni-Shi'ite violence this weekend was an unusually vivid illustration of the cycle of sectarian massacre and counter-massacre that has accelerated in Iraq since the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in February...
...possible reaction to a bombing that killed two people near a Shi'ite mosque Saturday night, masked men rolled into a Sunni neighborhood Sunday morning. They dragged people from their cars or off the sidewalk, checked their IDs, and murdered anyone who appeared to be a Sunni. More than 40 bodies were taken to hospitals or found lying in the streets of the western Baghdad neighborhood of Jihad. While the mass murder of civilians here is nothing new, the daytime invasion of a Sunni neighborhood by Shi'ite militiamen is the most brazen attack in recent memory...
...international assistance in Afghanistan, it largely shunned it in Iraq. As a result, while NATO forces are now relieving U.S. troops of some of the combat burden for fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, Americans continue to fight and die alone (with some backup from Iraqi troops) against the Sunni insurgents in western Iraq...
...back-room political battles over the scale of his amnesty proposal reveal the depth of the challenge facing Prime Minister Maliki in seeking to reconcile the competing interests of Sunni nationalists, Shiite religious parties and the U.S. After all, for the past three years the differences between those interests have been played out as a low-intensity...