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Article: Iraq's deepening religious fissures; After the largest death toll from a single attack since Hussein's fall, sectarian bloodletting seems likely to escalate.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 28, 2006
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Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
BAGHDAD -- Ask residents of Baghdad's Sadr City slum about the probable aftermath of more than 200 killed last week - the largest toll from a single attack since Saddam Hussein's fall - and they speak in apocalyptic terms.
These Shiites fear that the burgeoning instinct for revenge against Sunnis will override calls for calm from clerics and politicians, and deepen the sectarian bloodletting that has defined Iraq in 2006.
If last Thursday's attack proves to be another landmark event that drives Iraq further into civil war, it will complicate even more the American military ...