'Neighbors Are Killing Neighbors'

"Freedom is on the march"

'Neighbors Are Killing Neighbors':

'I left my boys in al-Jihad because they refused to leave their house. They said, 'We will never leave our home. We will fight for it,' ' recalled Um Mustafa, too afraid to give her full name, as she stood outside her tent. 'I ran away when the shooting started. We left with the clothes that were on our bodies.'

'Neighbors are killing neighbors,' she said. 'We cannot trust anyone.'

After more than a week of some of the most vicious sectarian violence of the war, Baghdad is a skeleton of a city: Many of its shops are shuttered, its streets drained of people.