civil war

U.S. and Iraqi troops conducting a raid in Baghdad found a blood-soaked torture chamber that may have been operated by a Shiite Muslim militia with ties to the government. Soldiers found Interior Ministry badges in the compound, and U.S. forces saw an Iraqi policeman on the roof of the compound before Sunday's raid, said Lt. Col. Avanulas Smiley, 40, a battalion commander who led U.S. troops in the raid.

One room of the complex contained a long wooden bench stained with a large pool of blood and urine, which could indicate victims were tortured there. In another room, posters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his white-bearded father, the late Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, were plastered on the walls. On the floor were stained mattresses strewn among baseball bats, bayonets and electric drills.

Sounds like civil war to me.