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Saturday, November 25, 2006

meanwhile, back in iraq

things keep getting worser and worser as alice would say

i can't imagine living like this. day to day not knowing if you can worship where you choose or pick your dead up from the morgue or have a relationship with someone who is of a different sect that you.

After 'Thanksgiving Day Massacre' in Iraq: 6 Burned Alive

BAGHDAD Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left Friday worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive near Iraqi soldiers who did not intervene, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said.The savage revenge attack for Thursday's slaying of 215 people in the Shiite Sadr City slum occurred as members of the Mahdi Army militia burned four mosques, and several homes while killing an unknown number of Sunni residents in the once-mixed Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad.Meanwhile, two bombs exploded in northern Iraq on Friday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 26, the police said. Followers of the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr warned Friday that they would suspend their membership in Parliament and the cabinet if Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki met with President George W. Bush in Jordan next week, a member of parliament said. Bush and Maliki were scheduled to meet Wednesday and Thursday in Amman, the Jordanian capital.The Sadr bloc in Parliament and government is the backbone of Maliki's political support, and its withdrawal, even if only temporarily, would be a severe blow to the prime minister's already shaky hold on power.The legislator Qusai Abdul-Wahab, a Sadr follower, said in a statement that U.S. forces were to blame for the bombings Thursday in Sadr City because they had failed to provide security.............

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