Is Sectarian Violence Becoming a Two-Way Street?

It seems that some Sunnis in Baghdad are being targeted for death, allegedly by members of the [Shi'ite] Badr Brigade.

If we are starting to see sectarian violence against the Sunni Arabs (earlier reports were mentioned on Glaivester here, then this is a likely sign that those trying to provoke a civil war have begun to succeed. We'll have to see, though, whether this violence is increasing or maintaining a steady-state (or even if it decreases) before we can be confident in the trends (although total violence agasint Iraqi civilians, or at least the reporting of it, has gone up since March of this year).

That is all.