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| A new civil war is threatening to explode in Iraq as American-backed Iraqi government forces fight Shia militiamen for control of Basra and parts of Baghdad. The gun battles between soldiers and militiamen, who are all Shia Muslims, show that Iraq's majority Shia community - which replaced Saddam Hussein's Sunni regime - is splitting apart for the first time. |
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