Militia rampage in Iraq town

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SUNNI families fleeing revenge killings in a Tigris town north of Baghdad described today how black-clad Shiite militias went door to door hunting for them and said they saw bodies dumped on streets.

"Fifteen black-clad gunmen came on Sunday night and told me: 'You are a Sunni from the al-Dulaimi tribe. You have to leave before the morning.' The next day I fled with my family and my four brothers along with their families," Ali Hussein, a merchant, 40, said in Dhuluiya.

Sadr, the head of the Mehdi army and a growing political force in post-war Iraq, has loyalists in Mr Maliki's cabinet.

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,20601533-5005361,00.html

[grytpype]

1. Freedom can be messy.

[tabatha]

6. except freedom will NOT be the end result. nt.

[arcane1]

2. why does the name "Negroponte" immediately come to my mind?

:shrug:

[twaddler01]

3. Don't worry, its not a civil war yet in Iraq.

:eyes:

[leveymg]

4. Who could have foreseen such a thing?

Where have we heard that before?

[wordpix]

5. The Chimp & his minions still think things are going well...

[Supersedeas]

7. nothing to see here -- John Mark Karr will be on Larry King Live