Sectarian strife threatens Iraq ahead of election

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(Repeats story from Sunday without changes) By Ned Parker, Ahmed Rasheed and Raheem Salman BAGHDAD, April 27 (Reuters) - The Sunni militants who seized the riverside town of Buhriz late last month stayed for several hours. The next morning, after the Sunnis had left, Iraqi security forces and dozens of Shi'ite militia fighters arrived and marched from home to home in search of insurgents and sympathizers in this rural community, dotted by date palms and orange groves. According to accounts by Shi'ite tribal leaders, two eyewitnesses and politicians, what happened next was brutal. They pulled out the young men and summarily executed them." The killings turned this town 35 miles **rtheast of Baghdad into a frontline in Iraq's gathering sectarian war.

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