A string of bombings in northern Iraq and Baghdad has killed over 100 people in the last several days. The attacks are raising fears that extremists are engaged in a sustained attempt to spark ethnic and sectarian warfare. Rod Nordland, New York Times foreign correspondent in Baghdad, reports in today’s paper that Shiites are actively organizing to resist being drawn into the violence.
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