December 3, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- For months, the Waheed brothers steadfastly endured the killings raging around them in their mainly Sunni district, staying put as fellow Shiites packed up and left.
Finally, a death threat persuaded Majed and Mondhir Hatem Waheed to leave the neighborhood of Dora where they grew up and, together with their wives and children, join 24 relatives in an uncle's house in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr city district.
"At least, we are safe," 25-year-old Mondhir Hatem Waheed said.
In the 43 months since Saddam Hussein's ouster, entire Iraqi provinces have become virtually off-limits to one or another sect, mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhoods are slowly disappearing, and a Kurdish region in the north appears to have all but seceded.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-partitioning-iraq,0,622606.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlinesWay to go Georgie.