The cycle of violence continues in Iraq

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When Jamal first saw his uncle’s broken body stuffed in the trunk of a car, he was overcome by anger. “The feeling of revenge overwhelmed me,” he said, in a house in Sadr City. “I said to myself, ‘I will kill all the Sunnis.’ ”

Two sedans of Mahdi militiamen arrived at a funeral this spring of a man who was killed along with five of his friends in a Sunni area, on their way back from a fish restaurant. According to an account by a relative, the militiamen called the mourning family out to the street and opened the sedans’ trunks. People were inside, the relative said. The men offered to kill them. The family refused.

Before he left, he was waiting to register the death certificate in a government ministry, when he struck up a conversation with a man in his 20s whose only brother had been killed. The man said he had killed three Sunnis to avenge the death, Mr. Jabr said. The man was surprised at Mr. Jabr’s restraint.

“Are you a coward?” Mr. Jabr said the man asked. “Why don’t you take revenge?”

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1. There is no way the US can stop this

Its time to leave