Members of  religious minorities Suicide car bomber kills dozens near Shia shrine Report on  threats to religious minorities  International Religious Freedom Report 2006     2006 U.S Department of State Background Information on the Situation of Non-Muslim Religious Minorities in Iraq	Members of ethnic minorities Palestinians Palestinians Targeted With Death Threats 2006, Human Rights Watch Country Reports An Urgent Appeal for Palestinians Fleeing Iraq                                              2006,Refugees International Death threats cause panic in Baghdad's Palestinian refugee community 2006,UNHCR
Christianity Christians are beseiged in Iraq Non Muslims constitution fear Christians increasingly threatened by extremist groups 'In 20 years, there will be no more Christians in Iraq'   Sunnis change names to avoid Shia death squads
sectarian violence,
Sectarian Violence Increasing Internally Displaced
Increase in sectarian violence, following the attack on the Al-Askari Mosque in Samarra on 22 February 2006, reportedly forced thousands of persons to flee their homes, with many moving to the relatively secure Kurdish regions in the north to escape the bloodshed Reporters sans frontièrs Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2006 http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/cm2006.pdf   The Brookings Institution Sectarian Violence: Radical Groups Drive Internal Displacement in Iraq, October 2006 http://www.reliefweb.int/library/documents/2006/bi-irq-18oct.pdf   Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Is there a "Civil War" in Iraq? 16 October 2006 http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/061016_iraq_civil.pdf   Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Strategies for Iraq: The Almost Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, 13 October 2006 http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/061011_iraqoptions.pdf Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Human Rights Annual Report 2006 http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/hr_report2006.pdf   Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Iraqi Force Development and the Challenge of Civil War: Can Iraqi Forces Do the Job? 4 October 2006 http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/061004_iraqi_force_dev.pdf