Sectarian fury as Shiites and Sunnis stage protests
Sectarian tension whipped through Iraq as thousands of Shiite and Sunni Muslim protesters mixed calls for an end to America’s occupation with stinging condemnations of each other.
In an effort to stop the country from plunging into a civil war, prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said yesterday in Turkey that he would travel to Syria soon in an effort to stop militants from crossing into Iraq.
