Iraqiya state television carried unusually strident anti-U.S. coverage

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO649317.htm

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With Baghdad under night curfew it was impossible to pin down what happened. But unusually strident anti-U.S. coverage on government-run state television showed a fierce confrontation between the ruling Shi'ite Islamists and the U.S. administration.

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The events came as Washington raises pressure on the Shi'ites to bring minority Sunnis into government -- it is even planning landmark talks with hostile Shi'ite Iran to break the impasse. Many fear a failure of the plan could plunge Iraq into civil war.

Iraqiya state television carried lengthy footage of the bloodied corpses of men in civilian clothes, in a room where no weapons were visible, calling them victims of U.S. gunfire.

"American forces raid and burn Mustafa mosque. A number of citizens martyred inside," it said in an on-screen headline.

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1. Remember the civil war that wasn't happening?

Somehow, I think the opening guns have just been fired.

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2. and the US troops are in the middle of it...