Sectarian threats in Iraq raise alarm

foxnews.com

Published February 25, 2013

Associated Press

BAGHDAD – The fliers began turning up at Sunni households in the Iraqi capital's Jihad neighborhood last week bearing a chilling message: Get out now or face "great agony" soon.

The leaflets were signed by the Mukhtar Army, a new Shiite militant group with ties to Iran's Revolutionary Guard. "The zero hour has come. So leave along with your families. ... You are the enemy," the messages warned.

Such overt threats all but disappeared as the darkest days of outright sectarian fighting waned in 2008 and Iraq stepped back from the brink of civil war. Their re-emergence now -- nearly a decade after the U.S.-led invasion -- is a worrying sign that rising sectarian tensions are again gnawing away at Iraqi society.

Iraqis increasingly fear that militants on both sides of the country's sectarian divide are gearing up for a new round of violence that could undo the fragile gains Iraq has made in recent years.

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Will these threats lead to the cities being set on fire?  Will the fourth judgment begin soon?

Anti-al-Qaeda milita killed in new Iraq attack

BBC News Middle East
4 February 2013

At least 19 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in central Iraq aimed at pro-government militia, officials say.

More than 40 people were injured in the blast in the town of Taji, about 20km (12 miles) north of Baghdad.
The majority of the victims were members of the Sunni Sahwa militia, which has been fighting al-Qaeda.
The attack comes a day after at least 16 people were killed in a raid on a police HQ in Kirkuk, northern Iraq.

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Will these latest attacks light the fires of the fourth judgment? Will we soon see Babylon burning?