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October 31, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/10/29/Iraqi_Christians_forming_ad_hoc_militias/UPI-77471225314406/

Iraqi Christians Forming Militias

[UPI] Members of the Christian community in northern Iraq are setting up ad hoc militias to secure their neighborhoods, rights advocates said Wednesday. A campaign targeting the minority Christian community in Iraq erupted in September. Mustafa Gundoghu with the Kurdish Human Rights Project told World Politics Review in a feature published Wednesday that Christians have received death threats through pamphlets, letters, e-mails and text messages from a group calling itself "al-Mujahadin." With Baghdad struggling to contain the situation, several Christian neighborhoods have established their own security forces, setting up various checkpoints throughout the city, he said.

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