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For Baghdad couples, love often lost amid sectarian struggle :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it

For Baghdad couples, love often lost amid sectarian struggle :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it: "Wissam wouldn't leave her Sunni husband when the Mahdi Army came and forced his family to leave their Shiite neighborhood. So now she lives in the Sunni enclave of Ameriyah and visits her parents in her old neighborhood only with the care of a spy, with two stops to change cars. Her husband never makes the trip. Intermarriage between Sunnis and Shiites was once common in Iraq , but no more. Warfare between the country's two major sects has segregated neighborhoods and divided families. Now it's ending marriages and filling with dread the few unions strong enough to survive."

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