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From the pages of “winning hearts and minds”: U.S. helicopters attacked allied Iraqi militiamen south of the capital on Saturday, killing at least nine civilians and wounding three, apparently because of a miscommunication during fighting with suspected Islamist gunmen. An Iraqi police spokesman put the death toll at 13. Casualties included two women and a […]

Well considering the this mornings news of the US denying reports of Iraq nearing civil war, here is something else to offer a little contradicition: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said insurgents are trying “everything” to foment civil war as reprisal attacks followed yesterday’s bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, sacred to Shiite Muslims. […]