BAGHDAD ¨C Salman Khaled has already lived through Baghdad¡¯s sectarian disintegration; with Iraq now splintering into Shiite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish regions, he says this time the survival of the country is at stake.
¡°Things are really tense and it could get worse,¡± said the 23-year-old Sunni Muslim student. ¡°If the politicians continue as they are doing now, we are on the path to separation.¡±
When Khaled¡¯s father was shot dead by Shiite gunmen at the height of Baghdad¡¯s religious bloodshed seven years ago, his family took shelter in a Sunni neighborhood of the capital.
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