Shiites and Sunnis

'Critical' Cease-Fire In Iraq Appearing To Unravel

McClatchy | Leila Fadel and Nancy A. Youssef | Posted 03.24.2008 | Home

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A cease-fire critical to the improved security situation in Iraq appeared to unravel Monday when a militia loyal to radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqta...

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Carve Up Iraq: Obsolete Borders and the Myth of Sovereignty

Mark Fritz | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics

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Mark Fritz

Why not spin Sadr City away from Baghdad? Cede the south to the Shiites? Give the Kurds the defacto homeland they've been promised since the end of World War I? It will take a new chief executive to pull it off.

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Shiites Released In Once-Praised Case Over Sunni Deaths

Washington Post | Amit R. Paley and Zaid Sabah | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sunni Militias, Warwire, Iraq War, War in Iraq, Iraq Justice, Iraq Judicial System, Shiite Militants, Iraq Law Enforcment, Shiites and Sunnis, Politics News

Two former high-ranking Shiite government officials charged with kidnapping and killing scores of Sunnis were ordered released Monday after prosecutor...

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Iraq's New Job Insecurity Filling Up Citizen Militias

TIME | CHARLES CRAIN | Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraqi Militias, Warwire, Iraq Job Insecurity, Iraq War, Iraqi Police, War in Iraq, Iraq, War on Terror, Shiites and Sunnis, Politics News

In Iraq, it is big news when a Shi'ite leader extols the virtues of Sunni fighters. But that is what happened just a few days ago, on Dec. 21, when Ab...

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