Civil War in Iraq

The most overlooked emerging story from Iraq is, in my oppinion, the imminent civil war between the three main 'ethnicities'. Germany's esteemed magazine Der Spiegel (hardly a liberal publication) has an interesting and insightful article about the situation. And well, they just released it online, in English, so I thought I'd share it with you.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,366834,00.html

"Never before have I ended the school year feeling so discouraged," says elementary school teacher Mohammed Salih, 30. "Even my pupils are starting to curse one another for being Sunnis or Shiites. The seeds of evil have been sown, and they are germinating with each passing day."

Five times in the last four weeks, for example, ordinary people, who had nothing at all to do with building a new Iraq, were killed as they walked along the road to the airport in Baghdad's Amariya neighborhood. They were killed for revenge, escalating animosities between the two religious groups. First, a Sunni fruit vendor was kidnapped. Then a Shiite pharmacist was shot, followed by the shooting of a Sunni who managed an ice cream parlor. Finally, two Shiite street vendors disappeared; their bodies were found days later, dumped onto a pile of garbage."

Scary. I know this isn't really a diary on its own, but I thought this article is worth linking to since I hardly see a truthful portrayal of the current situation down there.