Blasts in Baghdad as US faces stiffer Shiite resistance [View All]

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by Dave Clark
Sat Jul 29, 2:40 PM ET

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Bomb blasts echoed around Baghdad as sectarian death squads pursued their bloody work and the US military warned it was facing stiffer opposition in previously cooperative Shiite areas.

The US troops' most deadly foe remains Sunni insurgents -- four marines were killed in the mainly Sunni province of Anbar Thursday -- but coalition forces are now being increasingly drawn into clashes with powerful Shiite militias.

This trend is all the more ominous given that US commanders have decided to deploy 3,700 additional troops in the mainly Shiite capital to try to halt a surge in murderous bomb and gun attacks by rival sectarian gangs.

Just southeast of Baghdad, police found the bodies of at least 12 civilians, most of them kidnap victims who had been tortured and shot.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060729/wl_afp/iraq_060729183818

my comment :this is a result from Israel attacks on Lebanon. The shiite is hitting the fan (sorry for the bad pun). This is a very bad sign.