NYT: Sectarian Hatred Pulls Apart Iraq's Mixed Towns

[Rose Siding]

Abu Noor's town had become so hostile to Shiites that his wife had not left the house in a month, his family could no longer go to the medical clinic and mortar shells had been lobbed at the houses of two of his religious leaders.

"I couldn't open the door and stand in my yard," he said.

So when Abu Noor, a Shiite from Tarmiya, a heavily Sunni Arab town north of here, ran into an old friend, a Sunni who faced his own problems in a Shiite district in Baghdad, the two decided to switch houses. They even shared a moving van.
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The evidence is so far mostly anecdotal - the government is not tracking the moves. In a rough count, about 20 cities and towns around Baghdad are segregating, according to accounts by local sheiks, Iraqi nongovernmental organizations and military officials, and the families themselves.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/international/middleeast/20sectarian.html?hp&ex=1132462800&en=c8e4f36647d884a9&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Civil war.

So free and democratic that school children are afraid to tell classmates if their parents voted.

The GOP tells us we're making good progress.