THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ
Revenge Killings Fuel Fear of Escalation in Iraq
A wave of Sunni Muslim and Shiite assassinations raises the specter of sectarian warfare.
By Alissa J. Rubin, Times Staff Writer
BAGHDAD — Hassan Lami was herding some sheep to a garbage-strewn city lot to graze when six masked men, using guns with silencers, shot him more than 30 times.
As far as anyone can determine, the just-married 20-year-old was killed that July morning because he was a Shiite Muslim.
One week later, another 20-year-old was gunned down, this time by men who didn't bother to wear masks. In his neighborhood, the only reason anyone can think of that Ahmed Dhirgham was killed is that he was a Sunni whose father had worked for the Iraqi intelligence service under Saddam Hussein.
In the last six weeks in the Ghazaliya neighborhood on Baghdad's western edge, where both young men lived, more than 30 people have been killed in what appear to be purely sectarian attacks. Although other forms of violence, such as suicide bombings, have destabilized Iraq, many fear that the Shiite-Sunni targeted killings that have escalated in Baghdad and beyond are tipping the nation toward civil war.
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Ah, yes. . . now the coming civil conflict will be euphemistically called "sectarian warfare" . . . sanitized and made more palatable for the War Bunny's increasingly disillusioned supporters.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-assassinate11sep11,0,3770421.story?coll=la-tot-promo&track=morenews
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