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Article: Anti-U.S. Mahdi Army keeps: the calm in Shiite-only areas
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- August 19, 2007
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The deadly rivalries between Iraq's Shiites and Sunnis have left
Baghdad fractured and reassembled in a tragic new image: a patchwork
of sectarian enclaves in the once-mixed capital. The Associated Press
examined life in one neighborhood where Shiite militiamen now hold
sway.
BAGHDAD - The street market bustles in the early mornings and late
afternoons as shoppers come out to buy fruit, bread, clothes and
toys. Late into the hot summer nights, whole families gather to eat
grilled kebabs at tiny stalls, their small children shrieking as they
play tag.
The Hurriyah neighborhood of northwest Baghdad, gripped by a spasm
of deadly ethnic violence a year ago, has grown markedly calmer over
the ...