Iraq slides further towards civil war
by Martin Thomas According to one American journalist in Baghdad, writing to US academic Juan Cole, “The current security situation here has gotten much worse since the elections... Shiite death squads roam the city at night (in police and army uniform no less) dragging all the male members of a Sunni family out into the street and executing them in front of their women folk. Sunni insurgents (not in uniform) do the same to Shiite families in areas claimed as theirs”. Official results from the 15 December election were announced on 20 January. As in the 30 January 2005 elections, the great...