Shia militia turn on each other in Iraq

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SHIA militias battled each other and Iraqi police for a second day running, and a mortar attack killed more than a dozen people yesterday.

Gunmen loyal to Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr clashed with police near Baghdad yesterday, a day after hundreds of Sadr's militiamen attacked police stations and battled Iraqi forces in a town further south.

A mortar attack on a marketplace in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, killed more than a dozen people.

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=45&si=1710633&issue_id=14796

[ck4829]

1. It's still not a civil war

:sarcasm:

[bemildred]

2. Minor disturbance.

Just a little exuberance.
Nothing to worry about.