Shi'ites, Sunnis unleash reprisals
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BAGHDAD -- In a wave of reprisal killings, Shi'ite militiamen torched or sprayed gunfire at Sunni mosques in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq yesterday, defying a government curfew and propelling the country further toward full-scale civil war.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Shi'ite fighters appeared to be in  control of a holy shrine in Najaf Friday hours after Iraq's  interim government said it had overcome a bloody uprising by  seizing the Imam Ali mosque without a shot being fired.
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Along with a brewing Shi'a civil war,  officials in Diwaniyah are seeing an influx of al-Qaeda and Sunni insurgent elements
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Revenge-seeking Shiite militiamen seized six Sunnis as they left Friday prayers, drenched them with kerosene and burned them alive, and Iraqi soldiers did nothing to stop the attack, police and witnesses said.
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Facing the prospect of a Shiite Muslim landslide, Sunni politicians offered on Saturday to participate in mapping the nation's political future. But Sunni rebels showed no sign of compromise, killing three U.S. troops and at least 33 Iraqis in a string of attacks.
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BAGHDAD, June 28 â A spate of grisly attacks believed carried out by Sunni extremists killed dozens of Shiites around Baghdad over the past two days, just ahead of a planned huge march of devout Shiites through Sunni Arab heartlands to the remnants of a revered Shiite shrine.
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Shiite militants are rearming and supporters are amassing real estate along the UN buffer.
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The attacks were days ahead of a planned march of devout Shiites through Sunni heartlands to the remnants of a revered shrine.
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BEIRUT -- Troops in armored cars guarded Sunni Muslim neighborhoods in the capital yesterday after the shooting death of a young Shi'ite man. Shi'ite leaders urged the victim's family to avoid revenge, fearing sectarian violence that could detonate Lebanon's political crisis.
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January's severe police crackdown on suspected militants may rekindle sectarian tensions.
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BAGHDAD - Iraq's Shi'ite prime minister said yesterday that hard-line Sunni clerics outside Iraq share the blame for this week's bloodshed at a Shi'ite religious festival in Karbala because they issued religious decrees terming Shi'ites heretics.
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Lebanese and Palestinian militants are now showing greater coordination.
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Iran has recruited its own network of Iraqi Shi'ite extremists to use armor-piercing weapons against U.S. and coalition forces rather than against Sunni rivals, current and former intelligence officials say.
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Analysis: As both Shi'ites and Sunnis accuse the U.S. of deliberately failing to protect them from each other, the raging violence mocks the idea that Iraqis are almost ready to handle their own security
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Sunday&#39;s bombings in Shiite holy cities - the deadliest insurgent attacks since July - appeared aimed at sparking sectarian strife.
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As the U.S. pursues its offensive against al-Qaeda in Iraq, one promising sign is that Sunni insurgents are helping
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Shiite Islam's top clerics reaffirmed their opposition to armed resistance to the US troop presence in Iraq as life spluttered back to normal in Najaf after weeks of devastating combat, while two missing ...