Word: shying
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...Everybody has a civil war. We had ours. We got stronger. Maybe they need to have theirs and get it over with." JOSEPH HAMLIN, U.S. Marine lance corporal stationed in Ramadi, on Iraq's escalating Sunni-Shi'ite violence...
While Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pursues the logic of security plans and national reconciliation, a different and deadly logic prevails on the streets of Baghdad. A rapid back-and-forth of Sunni-Shi'ite violence this weekend was an unusually vivid illustration of the cycle of sectarian massacre and counter-massacre that has accelerated in Iraq since the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in February...
...possible reaction to a bombing that killed two people near a Shi'ite mosque Saturday night, masked men rolled into a Sunni neighborhood Sunday morning. They dragged people from their cars or off the sidewalk, checked their IDs, and murdered anyone who appeared to be a Sunni. More than 40 bodies were taken to hospitals or found lying in the streets of the western Baghdad neighborhood of Jihad. While the mass murder of civilians here is nothing new, the daytime invasion of a Sunni neighborhood by Shi'ite militiamen is the most brazen attack in recent memory...
...Later on Sunday two car bombs killed at least 17 near a Shi'ite mosque in northern Baghdad. Monday morning more bombs killed at least seven in the Shi'ite slum Sadr City...
...what does Khamenei want? In Tehran, speculation about the cleric's ambitions and the future of his partnership with Ahmadinejad is a parlor game of government insiders. Though Khomeini's doctrine of velayet-e faqih grants Khamenei divine right to rule, Khamenei is a breed apart from most Shi'ite mullahs, who still abide by premodern strictures. "He wears a watch," says an intimate, to illustrate how Khamenei differs from his fellow clerics. He hikes in jeans in Tehran's Alborz Mountains and plays the tar, a traditional Iranian stringed instrument. On religious issues, Khamenei is a conservative...