Refereeing in Hell

[45th Med]

GIs are dying. Rival factions are turning on each other. After freeing Iraq, can we keep it from coming apart?

By Babak Dehghanpisheh
NewsweekJan. 19 issue - The explosion gouged a crater in the pavement three feet deep and three feet across. The bomb, rigged from a gas cylinder attached to a bicycle, detonated at 1:45 in the afternoon, just as worshipers were leaving after Friday prayers at a Shiite mosque in Baquba, roughly 40 miles north of Baghdad. At least four people died and 32 were injured, police told NEWSWEEK. At the weekend the bomber had not been identified, but townspeople assume he was looking to spread distrust and anger between the Shiites and their predominantly Sunni neighbors. Police officials say the day's carnage could have been even worse if they hadn't found and defused a second bomb at another Shiite mosque a few miles away.

Refereeing in Hell