U.S. Army soldiers with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment, examine their CH-47 Chinook helicopter before an aircraft turnover mission at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, on Dec. 1, 2009. The aircraft are scheduled to be flown to Talil, Iraq, where Bravo Company, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment will use them for support to Multi-National Division - South. DoD photo by Cpl. Joshua Murray, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)Just Weeks Before Elections, Specter Of Sectarian Violence Resurfaces In Iraq -- Washington Post
BAGHDAD -- It was only one killing, but it unleashed the demons of a bitter and perhaps unfinished past.
The victim was a Sunni man in the mostly Shiite neighborhood of Hurriyah, in northwest Baghdad. The death and the aftermath were reminiscent of the prelude to the sectarian war, which began in late 2005 with a smattering of killings and threats and culminated with 100 bodies a day being dumped in the streets of the capital. With the imminent departure of American forces and fierce competition for power ahead of general elections on March 7, many here say sectarian strife is reigniting.
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