MOsanthrope

Posted by Chris on July 10, 2006 at 12:08 pm.

Civil war:

civil war, n.

A war between factions or regions of the same country.

Not a civil war:

Two bomb blasts in a Shi’ite neighborhood killed 12 [people] and wounded dozens [of people], while gunmen ambushed a commuter bus in a Sunni district and shot dead seven people. Militiamen, believed to be Shi’ite, fought gunbattles in a southern Sunni district.

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Two bombs blasted a Baghdad area that is a stronghold of Shi’ite militia fighters early on Monday, a day after suspected Shi’ite gunmen stormed through a Sunni area and killed over 40 [people].

Twelve people were killed and 62 [people] wounded, police said, in the car bomb blasts near a telephone exchange in the eastern Talbiya district. It is a bastion of the Mehdi Army militia of radical, young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

Police in the notoriously violent Sunni district of Amriya found four [human] bodies on a commuter bus. Three others, including a woman, lay in the street nearby, apparently dragged from the bus and shot. Their religious affiliation was not immediately clear.

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