Shi'ite faction menaces Iraq's Basra oil export:

Iraq's new government risks being held to ransom by a dissident Shi'ite faction using its local clout in Basra to hobble vital oil exports, Iraqi officials and senior political sources said on Friday.


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Iraqis dread new night callers, flee homes in droves:

A midnight visit from the secret police was the great anxiety in what was dubbed the "Republic of Fear" under Saddam Hussein; now Iraqis dread waking to find someone has scrawled "Go or die" on a note by the gate or daubed it on a wall.




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