U.N. warns Iraq sliding into sectarian abyss http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-01-23T105950Z_01_PAR045463_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml&src=012307_0639_TOPSTORY_defending_the_plan
Tue Jan 23, 2007
By Claudia Parsons
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.N. envoy said on Tuesday Iraq was sliding "into the abyss of sectarianism" and urged Iraqi political and religious leaders to halt the violence after two car bombs in a Baghdad market killed 88 people. Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed the car bombs on followers of Saddam Hussein, whose botched execution last month angered many among his fellow minority Sunni Arabs. http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-01-23T105950Z_01_PAR045463_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml&src=012307_0639_TOPSTORY_defending_the_plan