Iraq war update
Iraq’s most senior Sunni politician accused Shiite militias of waging an unprecedented campaign of genocide against Iraq’s Sunni population, President al Maliki called for an emergency summit to end the political deadlock which has left less than half of the cabinet attending meetings, residents of the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniya said they fear an all-out war among rival Shiite factions after the local governor and police chief were assassinated, and the U.S. military claimed it had arrested 13 arms smugglers in Baghdad allegedly linked to Iran. Local resident Abu Rasoul described the U.S. raid, “They tied our hands and made us stand against the wall and gave each of us a number written on our shoulders and after that they entered the house and searched it thoroughly. They took away with them one million Iraqi dinars and 755,000 dinars. They arrested three of our sons and one of my nephew whose father is dead and my brother and his son,” he said.
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