Word: militiamen
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...Hamas and Fatah militiamen have clashed repeatedly in the last three weeks, including on three separate occasions in just the last two days. Early Monday morning, three men were killed in Khan Yunis during a shoot-out between the factions that followed a series of tit-for-tat kidnappings. On Tuesday morning, trouble ensued in Gaza City after Hamas gunmen approached the heavily guarded house of a Fatah official; bullets again flew, injuring nine people, including five children. That same afternoon, at the funeral of a Fatah foot soldier killed the prior morning, gunfire erupted again, injuring three more...
...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...
...reports of militiamen decamping to Kirkuk in force may be inaccurate. According to Iraqi laws designed to preserve the fragile ethnic balance of the city, no one can move into Kirkuk without the permission of the Kirkuk governorate, and that permission has not been granted, according to Rebwar Talabani, the deputy governor of Kirkuk. A small number of families have fled to Kirkuk from Baghdad, "but we will not accept them as citizens of Kirkuk and we will not allow them to stay here," he said. "What people say about the Sadr movement is exaggerated by the media...
...troops who were looking for a pretext to start a civil war. Their fears were further fueled in the bloody two days after the attack, when Iraq became a sectarian slaughterhouse. Instead of protecting citizens from each other, National Police units stood by as Shi'ite rioters - and rival militiamen from Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army - stormed Sunni mosques and swarmed over Sunni neighborhoods, according to numerous reports, including some confirmed by U.S. Gen. George Casey, commander of American forces in Iraq...
...position as the Council's secretary-general. According to witnesses, 20 gunmen ringed the Council building and demanded that Hamas give Fatah's Khraisheh back his post, despite his defeat in the elections. Eventually the gunmen backed off. In its last days in power, Fatah placed dozens more militiamen in key security jobs. It isn't just loss of power that irks. According to Hamas officials involved with the investigations, the Islamic group has been compiling fat files on corrupt Fatah officials, intending to prosecute them soon. One Hamas web site shows a document detailing the sale to a Fatah...