[This are loose and long-winded because they're filed from inside a mass of confusion, but it's a good summartion of a very important story. It's interesting how the NYT has buried this inside.]
Day 1: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120100129.html
Day 2 (see especially the plaint of modernized Shiite woman at the end. She's so easy to identify with, and so right about what the last civil war was like, it's heartbreaking):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/02/AR2006120200443_pf.html
Michael