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	Sectarian violence 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 (2086 words)

	Articles - Sectarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sectarianism may, in the abstract, be characterized by dogmatism and inflexibility; sentimental or axiomatic adherence to an idea, belief or tradition; and idealism that provides a sense of continuity, orientation, and certainty.
		Iraq´s Shia population was persecuted during the presidency of Saddam Hussein, and certain elements of the Iraqi insurgency have made a point of targeting Shias in sectarian attacks.
		Sectarianism also exists between Orthodox and Reform Jews, with orthodox Jews often characterising reform Jews as being non-religious, disobeying the Torah, rarely attending shul and adopting semi-Christian styles of worship.
	www.sinoz.com /articles/Sectarianism (1197 words)

	Middle East Online
		Sectarian tension flared anew in Iraq on Friday as 19 Shiites were brutally gunned down east of Baghdad while Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari appealed for calm.
		In what looked like a sectarian attack, 19 workers from two brick factories in Nahrawan were shot through the head around nightfall Thursday by gunmen who also went on a rampage at a nearby power station.
		The imam of the Shiite Bayah mosque, Sheikh Hassan al-Jabiri, suggested that "Iraq is the theatre of an ideological war waged by worldly arrogance," a term used in Iran to finger the United States.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=15895 (812 words)

	Iraq: Sectarian Violence Highlights Increasing Power Of Militias
		As Iraq this week marked the third anniversary of the start of the U.S. invasion on March 19-20, some Iraqi leaders are saying the biggest security threat today is not the insurgency but the possibility of civil war.
		"Listen, we all recognize that there is violence [in Iraq], that there is sectarian violence, but the way I look at the situation is that the Iraqis took a look and decided not to go to civil war," U.S. President George W. Bush said later the same day.
		Sherman said the violence following the Samarra attack should be seen as part of a larger pattern of militia reprisals that began under Saddam Hussein's Sunni-based regime.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/2006/03/iraq-060322-rferl02.htm (994 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Sectarian Violence Diminishing in Iraq, General Says
		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/Mar2006/20060317_4524.html (543 words)

	The Hindu : International : Wave of sectarian violence in Iraq; 85 bodies found
		Much of the bloodshed — the second wave of mass killings in Iraq since bombers destroyed an important Shia shrine last month — followed deadly weekend explosions in a teeming Shia slum in which 58 persons died and more than 200 were wounded.
		Iraq's Interior Ministry announced a ban on driving in Baghdad to coincide with the first meeting of Iraq's new Parliament on Thursday.
		Leaders of Iraq's main ethnic and religious blocs began a series of marathon meetings on Tuesday in an attempt to break the deadlock.
	www.hindu.com /2006/03/15/stories/2006031507671600.htm (441 words)

	CTV.ca \| Sectarian violence in Iraq claims 60 more lives
		Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said the parties agreed to repair all religious sites and compensate the families of those killed.
		A car bomb was detonated in a Shiite city, and 13 members of a Shiite family were gunned down northeast of the capital as part of attacks that claimed at least 60 lives.
		While violence continued, "I think the danger of civil war as a result of this attack has diminished, although I do not believe we are completely out of danger yet,'' U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Saturday night.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060225/iraq_update2_060225/20060225?hub=CTVNewsAt11 (659 words)

	Sectarian violence creating Iraq exiles - Boston.com
		BAGHDAD, Iraq --Thousands of Shiite and Sunni families who once lived side by side have been forced from their homes and into a desperate exile, victims of the beginnings of ethnic cleansing a month after the bombing of an important Shiite shrine.
		The number of incidents cannot be fully gauged, but is not yet at the level of mass expulsions of the kind that took place in the Balkans during the civil war there in the 1990s.
		The killings in Iraq since the April 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein have nearly all been, at root, driven by sectarian rage.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/03/22/sectarian_violence_creating_iraq_exiles?page=2 (1011 words)

	The U.S. Role in Iraq’s Sectarian Violence
		The sectarian violence which 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-Shiite 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.commondreams.org /views06/0308-22.htm (1860 words)

	Arabs Fear Iraq Sectarian Violence Spillover: Rice
		SHANNON (Reuters) -- Arab states fear sectarian violence in Iraq could spill over to their countries, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday while flying home from a tour of the Middle East.
		She acknowledged the violence posed a threat to Iraq's political process and took small comfort from the limited achievements of her latest trip.
		"There is a concern that the sectarian tensions that outsiders are stoking in Iraq -- that those same outsiders might try and stoke sectarian tensions in other parts of the region," she said before a refueling stop in Ireland.
	www.aina.org /news/20060224142428.htm (652 words)

	PINR - Intelligence Brief: Sectarian Violence Moves Iraq Closer to Civil War
		The killings appear to be the result of sectarian violence, a development that has escalated since the February 22 bombing and destruction of the al-Askari shrine, one of the holiest sites of Shi'a Islam.
		The increase in sectarian violence is moving Iraq closer to civil war.
		Foreshadowing the sectarian divisions that have now erupted, PINR cautioned in August 2003 that "not only does the United States have to succeed in the traditional categories of a foreign occupation, but also in areas that have remained unsolved for centuries.
	www.pinr.com /report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=458&language_id=1 (667 words)

	CNN.com - Renewed violence rocks Iraq amid calls for calm - Feb 26, 2006
		BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least 25 people were killed and scores wounded Sunday in a string of violent attacks that rocked Iraq despite calls from Iraqi and U.S. leaders to end sectarian bloodshed.
		Despite the violence, Iraq's national security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, said the country is not descending into civil war.
		On Saturday, Iraq's leaders from virtually all political factions met in a dramatic show of solidarity to discuss the formation of a national unity government.
	www.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/meast/02/26/iraq.main (913 words)

	Iraq: Sectarian Violence On The Rise - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The bombings were the latest in a rising number of attacks that have led many to express fears that the country is on the verge of a sectarian war.
		But, you know, in Iraq cooperation and coexistence within religious [groups] is one of the [pillars] of the society, and I think it was only Iraq where we haven't seen sectarian fighting in last two centuries," Nourizadeh said.
		Binne says that although he thinks a sectarian war can be avoided, tensions between the two communities will persist because of the shift of power from the Sunni minority that has traditionally ruled the country to the Shi'ites.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/05/3111e849-611e-4da7-b29c-51e352fb84f3.html (913 words)

	Sectarian Violence in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		All around Iraq, groups of angry men gathered to protest or retaliate by attacking Sunni mosques and leaders.
		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)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Iraq edging towards precipice
		The latest sectarian violence in Iraq has made many Iraqis more fearful than ever before that their country is falling apart and sliding towards civil strife.
		The discovery of the bodies of 18 men, blindfolded and with hands bound, in the west Baghdad suburb of al-Amriya, is the latest in an apparently tightening cycle of sectarian reprisals and revenge killings between Sunnis and Shias.
		The US ambassador in Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad, interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, said that "the potential is there" for sectarian violence to become full-blown civil war in Iraq.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/4786660.stm (849 words)

	ABC News: Sectarian Violence Shadows Iraq Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		BAGHDAD, Iraq Jan 29, 2006 (AP)— Iraq's top Sunni Arab political leader accused Shiite-dominated security forces Sunday of pursuing a strategy of sectarian "cleansing" in Baghdad and said he opposed giving key Cabinet posts to Shiites a stance likely to further inflame sectarian tensions.
		Iraq's ceaseless violence killed at least 17 people, including 13 Iraqi policemen and soldiers, as the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants resumed on accusations of involvement in the killings of more than 140 Shiite Muslims.
		The leader of the main Sunni bloc in the next parliament, Adnan al-Dulaimi of the Iraq Accordance Front, indicated he would oppose awarding the vital interior and defense ministries to Shiites.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1553973&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312' (389 words)

	Sectarian Violence in Iraq Declines with Curfew in Place
		Sectarian violence in Iraq that has killed more than 200 people in recent days subsided Friday, after the government imposed a tough daytime curfew.
		Iraq's most influential Shi'ite political leader, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, also called for unity between Shi'ites and Sunnis.
		The head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq has blamed Saddam Hussein loyalists and followers of al-Qaida in Iraq for the country's sectarian violence.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/2006/02/iraq-060224-voa03.htm (312 words)

	The History Guy: New and Recent Conflicts of the World
		Over the past year (since 2001), the violence of the conflict has increased as the government realized that negotiations with the guerrillas were not leading to a peaceful solution.
		Violence escalated in mid-2001, when thousands of members of a fundamentalist Muslim militia called Laskar Jihad arrived from the island of Java.
		The Mujahadeen are currently based in Iraq and conduct cross-border raids into Iran, as well as conducting urban guerrilla operations in the cities and conducting political assassinations.
	www.historyguy.com /new_and_recent_conflicts.html (4046 words)

	68 killed in Baghdad attacks - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		Iraq descended into violence between Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis after a Shiite mosque was attacked.
		BAGHDAD, Iraq - A series of suicide attacks, car bombs and mortar barrages rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 68 people and wounding scores as Iraq teetered on the brink of civil war.
		The Tuesday night attacks were clearly a continuation of sectarian violence that erupted in the country after a Shiite shrine was bombed in the predominantly Sunni city of Samarra on Wednesday.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11491483 (914 words)

	SECTARIAN VIOLENCE EXPLODES ACROSS IRAQ / MURDEROUS DAY: Over 100 Iraqis killed and dozens of Sunni mosques attacked in ...
		The surge in violence, sparked by the destruction of Samarra's gold-domed Askariya shrine, comes at a time of political transition and uncertainty.
		Leaders of Iraq's largest factions are mired in negotiations over the composition of the next government.
		Sectarian violence has flared sporadically since Hussein's fall, intensifying since the middle of last year.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/02/24/MNGKLHE6QP1.DTL (1217 words)

	INDOlink - US News - US Unearths Al-Qaeda Plot To Incite Sectarian Violence In Iraq
		Baghdad, Feb. 10 (NNN): Top American officials in Iraq have said they have uncovered what they believe is a plot by a militant linked to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terror network to foment widespread sectarian violence in the Gulf state.
		Iraq's majority Shias were persecuted under Saddam Hussein, a Sunni.
		Addressing the UN before the Iraq war, Powell said Zarqawi was in Iraq and his presence showed Saddam Hussein's regime was courting al-Qaeda.
	www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=020904083635 (687 words)

	NewsHour Extra: Continued Sectarian Violence in Iraq Leaves Scores Dead -- February 28, 2006
		The violence was prompted by the bombing a week ago of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, a city north of Baghdad.
		Even though Sunnis are a minority group in Iraq (about 35 percent of the population), under Saddam Hussein and his largely Sunni Baath political party, they dominated the country and held powerful positions at all levels of government.
		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 (804 words)

	A Blog For All: On War, Sectarian Violence, and Iraq's Future
		During this sort of waiting game in Iraq, the American military silently is training tens of thousands of Iraqis to do the daily patrols, protect construction projects, and assure the public that security is on the way, while an elected government reminds the people that they are at last in charge.
		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)

	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 (817 words)

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