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We are caught in the middle, said a resident who asked to be called Umm Abdullah, one of several who said they feared that Sunni militants would retaliate against them because they had fled to Karbala, a Shiite holy city. Another refugee said militants burned down his house two days ago, after he was interviewed on television from Karbala. Later on Sunday, gunmen attacked an army patrol in the Abu Ghraib district, as the fighting spilled beyond the borders of Anbar Province toward Baghdad. In heavy clashes that included military airstrikes, at least four soldiers and 10 civilians were killed, according to security and hospital officials. The executions in Ramadi of the officers of the elite unit, the Special Operations Forces, apparently in retaliation to the governments arrest of a Sunni lawmaker last month, threatened to touch off a new round of tit-for-tat violence. In a statement, Fadhel al-Barwari, a commander in the Special Operations Forces, pledged to kill a thousand Al Qaeda members for each of the soldiers.