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To: stockman_scott who wrote (73724)7/20/2006 10:16:22 PM
From: T L Comiskey  Respond to of 361241
 
Thousands flee as Iraq violence deepens

July 20, 2006 - 3:22 PM
By Ahmed Rasheed and Alastair Macdonald
swissinfo.org.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Tens of thousands more Iraqis have fled their homes as sectarian violence looks ever more like civil war two months after a U.S.-backed national unity government was formed, official data showed on Thursday.

Iraq's most powerful religious authority, Shi'ite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, joined the United Nations and U.S. officials in raising the alarm that a spike in bloodshed and "campaigns of displacement" threaten Iraq's very future.