"Shiite husband who divorced his Sunni wife in part because of...sectarian

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http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/14317836.htm

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Mohammed said these divisions were new.

"There was no such a thing as Shiite and Sunni before," he said, his checkered shirt and his hands blackened after a day at work repairing cars.

He blames the violence on the Americans and the Iraqi government for failing to provide security. His wife accuses Shiite Iran of fanning the flames of sectarianism and the Americans of sowing divisions.

At her brother's funeral, women mourners told Hassan a troubling story about a Shiite husband who divorced his Sunni wife in part because of the rising sectarian tensions.

"They told me 'Beware.' I told them we don't have such things at home."