Iraqi chaos starting to breed sectarian strife

[dArKeR]

THE OBSERVER , LONDON
Monday, Aug 02, 2004,Page 7

Sheikh Raed al-Kadhimi, one of Moqtada al-Sadr's aides

First came the warning: a sheet of paper stuck to the door of Na'aman Khalil's shop ordering him to close his off-license.

"You are corrupting the people of the Earth and you should stop," said the message, signed by a group calling itself the Monotheistic Movement of Jihad.

Five days later, a parcel of and gutting the shop. Four other alcohol stores along the same street in Baghdad's largely Christian al-Ghadir district were bombed that same night.

No one was injured, but the message was clear. After the bombings and a spate of other attacks across Baghdad, most of the city's alcohol shops closed.

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. More good news from the 51st state of the union

Freedom is rather untidy at times.

[wtmusic]

2. kinda looks like a civil war

those lucky, liberated Iraqis

[schultzee]

3. The Pope, who I do not like, predicted this very well. And so did

many others, but ***** knew better with his C brain.