Violence exposes Shi'ite divisions
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi security forces fired on demonstrators loyal to rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the Iraqi capital yesterday, killing two in a clash that underscored the increasingly vitriolic and open split within the Shi'ite Muslim community.
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Wednesday's attack on the Askariya shrine mirrored a 2006 bombing at the Shiite holy site, but this strike may not spark the same sectarian bloodshed.
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On a day heralded as a new beginning for Iraq, many Iraqis were divided on whether the newly inaugurated national unity government will be able to curtail sectarian violence in the country.
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Two aides to Iraq's top Shi'ite leader  Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani have been killed in separate attacks  apparently aimed at inflaming sectarian conflict among Iraqis  already divided on whether Jan. 30 polls should go ahead.
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Enraged Shiites burned people to death, torched mosques and denounced Sunni leaders and the United States a day after a bloody assault on Sadr City, the Iraq capital's Shiite bastion.
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More than 20 people were killed in  attacks on Shi'ite targets Friday in violence apparently aimed  at stoking sectarian hatred days before the climax of one of  the holiest events in the Shi'ite calendar.
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Some streets are bullet-riddled and abandoned danger zones â the boundaries between Sunni and Shiite areas.
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In a poisonous landscape, competing Shiite groups no longer look to the political system to allocate power.
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Intensified insurgent attacks on Shiite holy cities have sparked renewed fears of sectarian strife.
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Only four weeks before crucial  elections, sectarian divisions threaten to worsen Iraq's  unrest, with majority Shi'ite Muslims poised for political  dominance and many Sunni Arabs boycotting the polls or too  afraid to vote.
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Rivalries and violence between Shiite factions are threatening to overshadow progress U.S. forces have made against al-Qaida in Iraq and other extremists just weeks before the top American commander and diplomat in Iraq report to Congress.
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Clashes on the streets of Baghdad between one of Iraq's main home-grown insurgent groups and members of an al Qaeda-led militant movement have exposed a deepening rift within Iraq's Sunni Arab-led insurgency.
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U.S. officials appear to differ over whether Moqtada Sadr's mahdi Army should be allowed to protect Shi'ite communities
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Plagued by mounting attacks by Islamist militants loyal to al Qaeda, Pakistan now faces a second wave of violence as its minority Shi'ite Muslims prepare for their annual mourning period.
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The attack, the deadliest in Iraq in months, occurred in a southern city where rival Shiite groups have been battling for power.
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U.S. officials in Baghdad fear that violence between Sunnis and Shi'ites in some areas will erupt into "ethnic cleansing" with the departure of U.S. forces, a government watchdog said on Thursday.
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After three weeks of bloody conflict in Najaf, fresh fighting in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City suburb and a death toll creeping into the high hundreds have tarnished the reputation of radical