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                      Sectarian Violence Kills 11 in Iraq

   It was a violent day in Iraq Saturday with at least 11 people killed
   and 10 policemen kidnapped as hatred simmers between the ruling Shi`ite
   majority and the Sunni minority.
   Gunmen broke into the home of an anti-terrorism policeman in the
   Baghdad suburb of Rasheed, killing him, his wife, and two children.
   Another security officer was killed elsewhere in Rasheed.
   Police say gunmen killed a Sunni cleric near his home in the southern
   port city of Basra and a car bomb exploded in the town of Latifiya,
   killing at least one person. Suspected Sunni Muslims kidnapped at least
   10 policemen in Ramadi, near the Syrian border.
   Iraq`s Sunni population says the Shi`ite-led government of Prime
   Minister Nouri-al-Maliki has been ignoring their needs while targeting
   them for arrests since taking power 10 years ago.
   On Friday, 70 people were killed in a series of bomb attacks targeting
   Sunnis, including two blasts outside a mosque north of Baghdad.
   Bombings and other violence have killed more than 100 people in Iraq in
   the past week.
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