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Article: Seeking safety, Iraqis turn to militias; Car bombs in a Shiite slum in Baghdad Sunday killed 42. The area is policed largely by the Mahdi Army militia.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 24, 2006
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Byline: Dan Murphy and Awadh al-Taiee
BAGHDAD -- A floundering government campaign to crack down on militias and increasing sectarian killings have many Shiites turning to militias for protection, particularly radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's violent Mahdi Army.
The US and British military have stepped up raids on its leadership after growing impatient with the new government's failure to arrest the militia's commanders.
But Sunday, two suicide car bombs in the capital and one in the troubled northern oil city of Kirkuk killed a total of 60 Iraqis, as new Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki jetted off to Britain and the US for talks with Prime ...