"Policy renews fears of ethnic cleansing in Baghdad district; Residents wary of revealing tribe" by Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post | October 6, 2008
BAGHDAD - The document appeared harmless enough - a computer-generated form, on white paper, seeking personal information. The two Iraqi soldiers who handed it to Abu Samir at his house were polite and respectful. But when the Christian shopkeeper took a closer look, he froze.
The document asked for a copy of the deed to his house, his children's names and, most disturbing, the name of his tribe, which identifies his religion and ethnicity. In Iraq, such a request has often been the first step toward death.
"When I saw it, it was like someone was trying to push us back to the previous era," said Abu Samir, 48, who lives in Zayouna, an ethnically mixed, upper-middle-class enclave in eastern Baghdad. "We are afraid that sectarianism will come back."
And what era would that be? See: Memory Hole: Iraq: The Lie Beyond Belief
The forms were part of an effort to enhance the rule of law and encourage reconciliation by identifying residents living in houses that had been emptied by sectarian cleansing and prodding them to return to their own neighborhoods, government officials said.
And the U.S. government called it SURGE SUCCESS!
In 2006, many people fleeing sectarian tensions in other areas entered Zayouna and occupied vacant houses there. Now, authorities are determined to bring displaced people back. But with a newly assertive Shi'ite-led government taking over security and US troops increasingly playing a support role, the forms prompted fears that they were a prelude to more ethnic cleansing.
Saddam Hussein built this enclave of palatial, sand-colored houses and manicured lawns for his military officers. Later it grew to include a highly educated class of civil servants, professors, and businessmen. Sunnis, Shi'ites, and Christians lived side by side; many intermarried.
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But after the February 2006 bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra, sectarian rifts split the community.
And CUI BONO, 'eh? See: Islam's 9/11
When US and Iraqi forces launched offensives against those armed groups last year, Zayouna was among the first enclaves to see improvements in security. Today, blast walls and concrete barriers block most roads into the neighborhood, and Iraqi soldiers and police officers staff checkpoints and conduct patrols.
Bush calls it LIBERATION!
Once-shuttered stores now stay open late, and fashionably dressed women walk alone. Residents who for years remained locked inside their homes wash cars in driveways, water lawns, and socialize with neighbors without regard to sect or religion.
Once more EXPOSING the JEWSH PROPAGANDA as a crock shit of LIES!!!!!
And how about how much BETTER Iraq is, huh, readers? Tired of THAT SHIT SHOVEL, too!!!!!!!
"We don't have any problems with each other," said Ammar Muhammed, 35, a Sunni pharmacist. "It is the strangers who brought the sectarian problems."
Yup, and WE KNOW WHOM THEY ARE and we are NO LONGER FOOLED by JEWISH PROPAGANDA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last year, gunmen disguised in security force uniforms kidnapped his brother and demanded a $100,000 ransom. Abu Rabab's family paid. But the kidnappers tortured and killed his brother, anyway. --more--"
GUNMEN "disguised" in security uniforms, huh?
So where they BLACKWATERS or IRAQI COMMANDOS trained by the U.S.?
