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	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News - US sidelined in Iraq's sectarian war
		Last week's bloody massacre in Mahmoudiya illustrated both the new level of sectarian violence and the US role as passive observer, even as the administration of President George W Bush acknowledges that the primary problem in Iraq is sectarian violence, not the Sunni insurgency.
		sectarian attacks on civilians casts a new light on the primary argument by administration and other opponents of a timetable for withdrawal - that the presence of US occupation forces is the only thing preventing an even higher level of sectarian civil war and chaos.
		The current US rules of engagement regarding sectarian violence were set by a broad policy adopted by the Bush administration at least as early as March.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/HG27Ak03.html (977 words)

	DefenseLink News Article: Sectarian Violence Diminishing in Iraq, General Says
		WASHINGTON, March 17, 2006 – The sectarian violence that surged after the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite mosque in Samarra, Iraq, has tapered off, and Iraqis are optimistic about the future, a top U.S. commander in Iraq said today.
		Violence is now at a lower level than it was before the mosque bombing, and the attacks are of the same type they were then, Army Lt. Gen.
		The Iraqi security forces' response to the recent sectarian violence is just another indicator of their continued progress, Chiarelli said.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/newsarticle.aspx?id=15142 (549 words)

	Teaching About Sectarian Violence Reported Through the Media
		It [sectarian violence] has been about a high-stakes chess match in which Hindu chauvinists and Indian secularists are playing for the nation's destiny....
		Violence is nurtured from long-term grievances over unresolved historical injustices, institutionalized economic deprivation and political exclusion, lack of processes for voicing and addressing grievance, and the plight of refugees (Key 2001, Salutin 2002, Thakur 2002).
		Violence refers here to the more severe indicators of intolerance: threats or actions that lead to physical harm against a person or group, destruction of their property, exclusion from employment and social institutions, or segregation or expulsion from the community.
	www.quasar.ualberta.ca /css/Css_37_1/ARsectarian_violence_media.htm (3853 words)

	Sectarian war in Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sunni insurgency has used sectarian violence to capitalize on Sunni fears of the Shi'a majority and the Shi'a armed militias have shown a zeal for vigilante justice.
		However, there are other sectarian divisions of the population that lay in nearly a dozen distinct groups.
		In late August 2005, violence occurred in Najaf, Nasiriyah, Diwaniyah, and Sadr City (Baghdad).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sectarian_violence_in_Iraq (2562 words)

	The News Pakistan
		In 1997, the bloodiest year in the history of sectarian violence, 77 Sunnis were killed, but in 1998 the violence remained a one-sided affair.
		Break-up of incidents of sectarian violence: In 1990, 12 cases of violence were reported against Shias, killing 14 persons of the community; while 13 Sunnis were killed in 10 cases in the same period.
		During 1993, 17 Shias were killed in 12 cases of sectarian violence as compared to 11 Sunnis killed in nine cases.
	www.karachipage.com /news/sectarian2.html (774 words)

	Sectarian violence continues in Northern Ireland despite the "peace process" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		However, the violence now being carried out has shifted from outward sectarianism to the internal policing of the working class ghettos that are controlled by republican and loyalist death squads.
		Outside of this mainstream violence, republican splinter groups continue to pose a threat to life, although their numbers are small and access to military equipment limited.
		The British Government have not only ignored the continued violence against the working class community by republican and loyalist terror groups that are supposed to be on cease-fire, but are funding so-called “Restorative Justice ” programmes run by the terrorists to the tune of millions of pounds.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/jul1999/ire-j07.shtml (985 words)

	Sipah-e-Sahaba: Fomenting Sectarian Violence in Pakistan
		Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (Corp of the Prophet's Companions), a militant Islamist organization and the largest sectarian outfit in the country, was outlawed by President Pervez Musharraf on January 12, 2002 for its alleged involvement in terrorist related activities.
		At least two subsequent events changed the dynamics of sectarian violence: the murder of TNFJ leader Arif Hussain in 1988 and the February 1990 assassination of Maulana Haq Nawaj Jangvi, the most influential founder of SSP.
		Sectarian violence reached its peak in 1997; out of 195 killed in that year, 118 were Shi'a and 77 Sunni.
	jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369166 (2175 words)

	ABC News: Nigerian Muslims Flee Sectarian Violence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Bodies littered the streets of the southern Nigerian city of Onitsha on Wednesday as the death toll from days of Christian-Muslim violence across the volatile West African nation rose to at least 93.The sectarian violence was sparked by deadly weekend protests against cartoon caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
		Onitsha has borne the brunt of a wave of sectarian violence across the country, sparked by weekend protests against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
		The violence is the worst of its kind since 2004, when Muslim-Christian skirmishes in northern Plateau and Kano states killed more than 700 people.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1652793&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (445 words)

	Sectarian violence out of control in Iraq - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		An AP count showed at least 696 Iraqis were killed in sectarian or war-related violence in the first 18 days of July.
		U.S. officials blame much of the sectarian crisis on the legacy of the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq until he was killed in a U.S. airstrike June 7.
		Although sectarian killings began soon after Saddam fell in 2003 but accelerated after the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra five months ago.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2006-07-18-sectarian-violence_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA (1158 words)

	Emboldened » Blog Archive » Sectarian Civil War
		Iraq’s violence is massively sectarian in the sense that there are at minimum six sides of opposition in Iraq (Provisional government, Kurds, Sunnis, Shia, US troops, and foreign insurgents), yet four of those are made up of an untold number of smaller militias.
		In my mind this wave of violence constitutes the outbreak of civil war, if only because of the brazen nature of the sectarian killings, the massive number of casualties, and the huge number of attacks on mosques.
		The most relevant aspect to distinguishing sectarian violence and a sectarian civil war is its duration.
	www.baltimoregroupblog.com /2006/02/28/sectarian-civil-war (1877 words)

	'All-time high' in Baghdad violence - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Christopher Garver, a military spokesman, acknowledged violence in Baghdad is at an "all-time high" and said U.S. commanders, in coordination with their Iraqi counterparts, are continuing to adjust the security plan to try to reduce the violence.
		Sectarian violence grew after the February bombing of a sacred Shiite mosque in Samarra.
		In Washington, Bush said, "The violence is being caused by a combination of terrorists, elements of former regime criminals and sectarian militias."
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2006-10-11-baghdad-violence_x.htm (596 words)

	Sectarian Violence: Radical Groups Drive Internal Displacement in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The sharp rise in sectarian attacks, abductions and killings that followed the bombing of the holy Shi'a shrine in Samarra's Golden Mosque in February 2006 has presented Iraq with an explosive problem: sectarian-induced displacement.
		September figures from Iraq's Ministry of Displacement and Migration indicate that sectarian violence by Sunni and Shi'a extremists has forced circa 39,000 Iraqi families—234,600 individuals—to flee their homes since the Samarra bombing.
		The groups all share in fact common goals: to consolidate their territory, to maintain some of 'their' people in the territory of the 'other' and, in the context of a feeble government, to pose as both protector and provider.
	www.brookings.edu /fp/projects/idp/200610_DisplacementinIraq.htm (670 words)

	Power Line: Gen. Casey: Sectarian Violence Over, "Exaggerated"
		George Casey, America's top military commander in Iraq, said yesterday that the wave of sectarian violence that followed the bombing of the Askariya mosque in Samarra has died out.
		Despite the sectarian violence, the number of suicide bombers in Iraqi in February stood at 17, about half the total in January.
		Initial reports of deaths in violence that followed the mosque bombing turned out to be inflated by a factor of four.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/013320.php (393 words)

	Sectarian violence engulfs Iraq following mosque bombing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The bombing of the Al-Askariya mosque in the city of Samarra on Wednesday is a deliberate provocation that has immediately unleashed widespread sectarian violence and threatens to take US-occupied Iraq to a new level of savagery and barbarism.
		Organisations such as Al Qaeda have been able to win an audience for their reactionary sectarian claims that all Shiites are collaborators with the US occupation, and recruit disaffected Sunnis to carry out horrific attacks on Shiite civilians and religious sites.
		Sistani allowed himself to be filmed for the first time in a television appeal for an end to sectarian violence but issued a statement calling on “believers to express their protest through peaceful means”.
	wsws.org /articles/2006/feb2006/aska-f24.shtml (1531 words)

	NewsHour Extra: Continued Sectarian Violence in Iraq Leaves Scores Dead -- February 28, 2006
		Baghdad was rocked by a series of attacks Tuesday, dashing hopes that a curfew and calls for restraint by religious leaders would end days of sectarian violence that threatens to push the country into all out civil war.
		The violence was prompted by the bombing a week ago of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, a city north of Baghdad.
		In a press conference to address sectarian violence, Zalmay said that the next Cabinet ministers "have to be people who are nonsectarian, broadly acceptable and who are not tied to militias" run by political parties and warned that if they are not they risk losing U.S. support.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/extra/features/jan-june06/iraq_2-28.html (823 words)

	Sectarian Violence in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Shi'a leader Muqtada Sadr also called for an end to the sectarian violence and commissioned the Mehdi Army in Basra to go to the Sunni mosques to protect them.
		One Iraqi neighbor told me that behind the violence are all the leaders, Iraqi and American, who want to use civil unrest to grab more power.
		Sectarian violence has the potential of causing horrendous damage to Iraqi society.
	www.warresisters.org /sectarian-violence.htm (542 words)

	Iraq militias' wave of death - The Boston Globe
		The Badr Organization, formerly known as the Badr Brigade, is the armed wing of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a powerful party that once took refuge in Iran from oppression by Saddam Hussein's Sunni-led regime.
		But since the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra, the violence has widened to include public murders and abductions, often by killers dressed in the uniforms of Iraqi Army and police.
		US military officials say they are taking measures to counteract the violence, including a widespread push to have US military units embed in provincial Iraqi police forces.
	boston.com /news/world/articles/2006/04/02/iraq_militias_wave_of_death (1401 words)

	A Blog For All: On War, Sectarian Violence, and Iraq's Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Thus the terrorists have succeeded in making all the daily mayhem of a major city appear to be political violence — even though much of the problem is the theft, rape, and murder committed by criminals who have had a holiday since Saddam freed them.
		Soon, ten divisions of Iraqi soldiers, and over 100,000 police, should be able to crush the insurgency, with the help of a public tired of violence and assured that the future of Iraq is their own — not the Husseins’, the Americans’, or the terrorists’.
		Shi'ite leaders are urging unity in the face of the violence.
	lawhawk.blogspot.com /2006/02/on-war-sectarian-violence-and-iraqs.html (1163 words)

	US General Blames al-Qaida for Increase in Iraq Sectarian Violence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Lieutenant General Peter Chiarelli says there was little sectarian violence in Iraq before the attack on the Shi'ite Golden Dome Mosque in February.
		However, during the last week or two, the general says, sectarian violence has increased again, and he blames the Iraqi branch of the al-Qaida terrorist network, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
		He says the security forces are improving and are doing what they can to fight the violence, but the general believes the long-term solution to the Iraqi insurgency lies in non-military areas, like improving the economy, that the new government will be able to address.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-05-19-voa53.cfm (580 words)

	Iraq militias' wave of death - The Boston Globe
		US military officials and human rights monitors attribute much of the violence to Shi'ite militias that began targeting Sunnis to retaliate for the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shi'ite shrine.
		But since the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra, the violence has widened to include public murders and abductions, often by killers dressed in the uniforms of Iraqi Army and police.
		US military officials say they are taking measures to counteract the violence, including a widespread push to have US military units embed in provincial Iraqi police forces.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2006/04/02/iraq_militias_wave_of_death (1364 words)

	Sectarian violence in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Officials say the curfew is intended to reduce crowds at the mosques, which could be potential flashpoints for new sectarian violence.
		The violence has also sparked a major political crisis, with the main Sunni political group in Iraq withdrawing from talks to form a government.
		Hiltermann said that this sectarian siege mentality -- which can also be found on the Shi'ite side -- gives insurgents a potential veto power over efforts to form a new national-unity government.
	www.yoursdaily.com /world_news/middle_east/sectarian_violence_in_iraq (805 words)

	Iraqi sectarian violence in Balad kills dozens - CNN.com
		However, the U.S. military said Tuesday that increased security has brought a "marked decrease" in the violence, and coalition forces detained "two Iraqi police officers" who are suspected of involvement in the incident that set off the carnage.
		The ongoing sectarian strife isn't limited to Balad, as police also found 30 bullet-riddled bodies Tuesday and 64 bodies on Monday in various Baghdad neighborhoods, according to an official with Baghdad emergency police.
		The violence there increased after Shiite construction workers were kidnapped Friday on a road in the mainly Sunni town of Dhuluiya, across the Tigris River from the mainly Shiite Balad, both in Salaheddin province.
	edition.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/meast/10/17/iraq.main/index.html (952 words)

	The US Role in Iraq's Sectarian Violence - by Stephen Zunes
		he sectarian violence that has swept across Iraq following last month's terrorist bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samara is yet another example of the tragic consequences of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.
		As a result, the tendency in the United States to blame "sectarian conflict" and "long-simmering hatreds" for the Sunni-Shi'ite violence in Iraq is, in effect, blaming the victim.
		Even before the latest upsurge in sectarian violence, the Baghdad morgue was reporting that dozens of bodies of Sunni men with gunshot wounds to the back of the head would arrive at the same time every week, including scores of corpses with wrists bound by police handcuffs.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/zunes.php?articleid=8668 (1846 words)

	Sectarian Violence Kills Over 100 in Iraq
		A wave of sectarian strife and recrimination swept Iraq Thursday after Wednesday's bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in the city of Samarra.
		The surge in violence, sparked by the destruction of Samarra's gold-domed Askariya shrine, comes at a time of political transition and uncertainty, with leaders of Iraq's largest factions mired in negotiations over the composition of the next government.
		Sectarian violence, however, has flared sporadically since Hussein's fall, and intensified since the middle of last year.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/23/AR2006022300216.html (814 words)

	Joe Biden for President \| Issues
		Sectarian cleansing has forced at least 250,000 Iraqis to flee their homes in recent months.
		The only way to break the vicious cycle of violence - and to create the conditions for our armed forces to responsibly withdraw -- is to give Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds incentives to pursue their interests peacefully.
		Realistic, because none of the major groups will give up their militia voluntarily in the absence of trust and confidence and neither we or the Iraqi government has the means to force them to do so.
	www.joebiden.com /issues/?id=0009 (1954 words)

	Blast at Shiite Shrine Sets Off Sectarian Fury in Iraq - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The dome of the Golden Mosque at the revered Askariya Shrine in Samarra, Iraq, lay in ruins Wednesday after a bomb was detonated inside the mosque.
		The shrine is central to one of the most dearly held beliefs of Shiite Islam, and the bombing, coming after two days of bloody attacks that have left dozens of Shiite civilians dead, ignited a nationwide outpouring of rage and panic that seemed to bring Iraq closer than ever to outright civil war.
		In all, at least 15 people were killed in related violence across the country.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/02/23/international/middleeast/23iraq.html?ex=1298350800&en=7ed5985028309493&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (898 words)

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