Friday, June 26, 2009

Meanwhile

Over there.

Nearly 200 people were killed and hundreds wounded in attacks over the past week in Baghdad and elsewhere in the country, with the deadliest attacks aimed at Shiites. The violence has raised fears of a new bout of sectarian warfare of the sort that ripped Iraq apart in 2005, and which could lead Iraqis once again to seek the protection of militias and armed groups instead of government forces.