Insurgents widen campaign of intimidation against Iraqis

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BY PATRICK KERKSTRA

BAGHDAD, Iraq - (KRT) - The letters are turning up on more front doors every day: Quit your job, they read, or, in the name of Allah, we will kill you, burn your home and slaughter your family.

In months past, militants usually limited such grim threats - and the bloody violence that reliably follow them - to soldiers, police officers and high-profile public officials.

But the campaign of intimidation has widened to include secretaries, laborers, doctors, drivers, scientists, janitors, seemingly anyone whose paycheck is cut by coalition forces, Western companies or the interim government.

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