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Sunni vs. Shia

General Malik Maliki of the 8th division of Iraq's Federal Police out on patrol on the outskirts of the mostly Shia neighborhood of Khadamiya in north Baghdad. At a checkpoint not far from here, just hours before his visit, a suicide car bomb attack kille

Baghdad’s police are just waiting for the next car bombing

Conflict

General Malik Maliki of Baghdad’s federal police force has lost 10 men in the space of three days to bombings, and he expects the number to climb.

General Malik Maliki of the 8th division of Iraq's Federal Police out on patrol on the outskirts of the mostly Shia neighborhood of Khadamiya in north Baghdad. At a checkpoint not far from here, just hours before his visit, a suicide car bomb attack kille

Baghdad’s police are just waiting for the next car bombing

Conflict
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