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Article: IRAQ - Oct 21 - Shi'ite Infighting Threatens Troop Withdrawal.
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- October 28, 2006
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Iraqi government officials and religious leaders move to broker a settlement in a dispute between rival Shi'ite groups in the southern provincial capital of Amara. The town was overrun on Oct 20 by fighters of the radical Mahdi Army militia. They acted as violence continued across the country. A bomb killed five people in a central Baghdad market as the holy month of Ramadan, which traditionally sees a surge in violence in Iraq, came to an end. At least nine people died in clashes between rival Shi'ite and Sunni groups south of the capital. Although the immediate crisis in Amara appears to have been averted, the fighting, which killed at least 24 people, does not bode ...