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...Kurds are facing possibly growing problems not just from across its borders. Iraq's Arab majority has long suspected that the Kurds want to break apart their country and take northern Iraq's rich oilfields with them, and that suspicion fueled recent reports that hundreds of Shi'ite Arab militiamen have moved into the northern city of Kirkuk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Trouble Brewing for the Kurds? | 5/4/2006 | See Source »

...military and diplomatic officials have claimed that radical cleric Muqtada Al Sadr - accused by the U.S. of sectarian reprisals in Baghad and elsewhere in southern Iraq - and the country's largest Shi'ite party have started to send in small numbers of their armed loyalists. The status of Kirkuk, officially to be decided in a referendum by the end of 2007, is one of the most contentious issues facing the new Iraqi government; though claimed by the Kurds, it is controlled by Baghdad, which is reluctant to part with its vast oilfields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Trouble Brewing for the Kurds? | 5/4/2006 | See Source »

...Chief Spoiler In 2005, as an elected Iraqi government struggles to maintain stability, al-Zarqawi intensifies his bombing campaign, focusing on Shi?ite targets, with a view to starting a civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIMELINE: Zarqawi's Road to Perdition | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...question is exactly what triggered this battle and who fought it. Sunni community leaders claim that local residents grabbed whatever weapons they had to defend their homes from a sectarian attack by Shi'ite militias in government uniforms. They say night guards, akin to an armed neighborhood watch, fired back at roaming gunmen strafing them as they stood watch. However, American officers say the men they ended up fighting weren't mere homeowners. They used the fire and movement techniques of trained soldiers. "These guys who stood and fought were not just neighborhood types," says Markos, a steely artillery officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Chaotic Battle Lines in Iraq | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

...themselves all say the hostilities were started by a raid from a "death squad" backed by the Ministry of Interior (MOI) - carloads of men in MOI uniforms and irregular forces in civilian clothes who entered Adhamiya after passed through the Iraqi army checkpoints. Indeed, sources within one prominent Shi'ite militia say their men were part of the Adhamiya raid, which was targeting top insurgent leaders holed up in a building. A report prepared by the local council for the Iraqi army claims the men arrived in police and civilian cars and that another group of men in military uniforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Chaotic Battle Lines in Iraq | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

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