Shiites and Sunnis driven from their neighborhoods
Thursday, March 2, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Masked gunmen carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers and automatic rifles kicked down the gate at 68-year-old Abbas al-Saiedi's house, fired into the air and told the Shiite he had 48 hours to get his family out of the predominantly Sunni neighborhood in west Baghdad.
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