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Captain Chase told me of a Sunni man who was afraid to check on a sick relative in southern Risala because he believed he would be executed at the hospital run by Shiites.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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In southern Risala, Shiite militias continued to fight the Americans and operated like the Mafia.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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In southern Risala, Shiite militias continued to fight the Americans and operated like the Mafia.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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Captain Chase told me of a Sunni man who was afraid to check on a sick relative in southern Risala because he believed he would be executed at the hospital run by Shiites.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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By the middle of 2008, the sectarian cleansing was mostly over, and Risala effectively had become a segregated community: Sunnis had moved to the northern part of the neighborhood, Shiites had moved to the south, Christians had fled and gunfights and executions had given way to quiet and chilling mistrust.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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Soldiers in Saidiyah, a neighborhood next to Risala, felt safe enough to walk out of their outpost occasionally and stroll about a quarter of a mile to Sun City Foods, a two-story, glorified shwarma joint decorated with bright plastic flowers, a large fish tank, and black and mirrored wall tiles.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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The American forces patrolling Risala were members of a single company, a hundred or so soldiers stationed at an abandoned schoolhouse they had christened Combat Outpost Guerrero, after army Specialist Marieo Guerrero, killed in Baghdad in 2007.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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Before Risala, like the rest of Baghdad, had succumbed to a spate of block-by-block religious violence in 2006, the neighborhood was home to both Sunni and Shia Muslims and some Christians.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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That was how they charged out into a dark street on the edge of a putrid marsh in Risala that night.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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Sean Chase, the melancholy army captain whose company patrolled Risala, bluntly referred to the neighborhood in his charge as “a shithole.”
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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