Word: shying
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...Monday's attack in Sadr City may indicate that Sunni insurgents are retaliating against Moqtada al Sadr, a Shi'ite cleric and politician, and his Mehdi Army militia. Maliki, like his predecessor, has pledged to control or disarm militias affiliated with Shi'ite political parties, including the Mehdi Army...
...many Shi'ites are skeptical of the government's ability to protect them, and many Shi'ite politicians draw much of their influence from the strength of the armed groups which support them. Even if the government is willing to disarm these militias it remains to be seen if it is able...
...Sunni insurgent groups, and Sunni politicians with no ties to the insurgency, have said the violence will continue unless the Shi'ite militias are reined in. Some of this may be a disingenuous justification for the Sunni insurgent violence that has rocked Iraq since the summer...
...backseat began to kick and pistol-whip him, ordering him to "confess" to being a Sunni and demanding to know his name. For months, Omar had heard stories of Sunni boys and men being snatched, tortured and killed by Shi'ite death squads. Because Omar is a common Sunni name, he claimed to be "Haider," a Shi'ite. But not only did his captors know his real name, they even knew that Omar had been named after his father. "They kept saying, "Omar, son of Omar, you have an evil name," he says...
...indicative of the danger of daily life in Baghdad these days that the very basis of your identity can mark you for death. For combatants in Iraq's low-boil civil war - which has erupted anew in the capital, with dozens of Sunnis killed by Shi'ite militants in the last few days - identifying the enemy can be difficult. Shi'ites and Sunnis share a common ethnicity and have a hard time telling themselves apart. And so the killers rely on a cruder vetting process: choosing victims based on their first name, which for many Iraqis is their only religiously...