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The toll of intolerance in Iraq

August 16, 2007

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THE TRUCK bombings Tuesday that killed more than 250 members of the religious sect known as Yazidi in northern Iraq appear to reflect local, parochial enmities. Still, this atrocity casts light on a more diffuse phenomenon in Iraq that US policy makers have failed to comprehend and that cosmopolitan Iraqis have long ignored or denied -- a ruthless intolerance of ... (Full article: 468 words)

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