As some measure of calm arrives in Baghdad, last week was one of the worst ever for sectarian carnage in Iraq. Money quote:
The Interior Ministry gave its first news conference about the killing in Tal Afar, announcing that the total number of dead was 152 with another 347 wounded. It appeared that the 152 included both those killed in the initial truck bombing of a Shiite neighborhood and those killed in the subsequent reprisals.
Meanwhile, the Shiite militias appear to be flexing more muscles in Baghdad itself.
(Photo: An Iraqi family flees a mixed Sunni and Shiite Muslim neighborhood near the Baghdad Sunni strongold of Haifa street, 30 March 2007. Nearly 400 people have been killed in Iraq over the past three days, officials and medics said today, as insurgents and sectarian militias defied a massive US security crackdown billed as a last chance to restore order to Baghdad. By Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty.)
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