Iraq Violence Taking a Sectarian Twist - LA Times

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"BAGHDAD — The discovery Sunday of nearly three dozen bodies — all Iraqi men apparently abducted and slain execution-style — is the latest grisly episode in an escalating sectarian conflict fueled by this nation's raging insurgency.

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The slayings had the nowfamiliar marks of sectarian violence: The group of 13 bodies found in Baghdad was left in a ditch in the same Shiite Muslim district where 14 corpses, said to be those of members of a Sunni Arab clan, were discovered last week; one official said the latest bodies had the type of long beards characteristic of some religious Sunnis.

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The 11 victims found south of Baghdad, appeared to be Shiites ambushed by Sunni guerrillas on the perilous roads between the capital and the Shiite holy city of Najaf.

On Saturday, the bodies of 10 Iraqi soldiers were found in Ramadi, news services reported. The city in the western province of Al Anbar is an insurgent stronghold where the largely Sunni Arab population has chafed at the deployment of Shiite recruits."

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-sectarian16may16,0,3987683.story

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Can you say "civil war?"