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ALAM, Iraq Sabha al-Jabbouri gingerly opened the door to her family home to see a kitchen strewn with dirty pots and pans and rubbish. On the table was a half-eaten meal, indicating that the unwelcome guests who had lived here for eight months had left in a hurry.
On the wall outside was scrawled: Property of the Islamic State. Seized after Jabbouris family had fled in late June, the home had been used as an administrative office by the militant Sunni group. Printed forms from its Department of Prisons had been tossed around downstairs bedrooms that were filled with desks and printers.
May God destroy them, Jabbouri cried, as she shut kitchen cupboard doors and surveyed the mess. They pretend they are religious men, but look, they live like animals.
Her family is among more than 200 that had returned to the Sunni town of Alam in Iraqs Salahuddin province in the first 30 hours after it was reopened to residents this past week, according to figures from militiamen manning the towns checkpoints. But those going home are a lucky minority.
An offensive aimed at retaking Tikrit from Islamic State forces has secured a string of Sunni towns and villages in the province, which military leaders claim is now largely under government control. But the cars and trucks packed with children, blankets and mattresses backed up at Alams main checkpoint represent just a handful of the thousands of Sunnis displaced from the area. The returnees here are almost exclusively from the Jabbour tribe, which has garnered a reputation for its fierce resistance to the Islamic State.
Iraqi troops and militia are welcomed with celebrations after retaking the town of Alam, which had been under Islamic State control, clearing the way for an assault on Tikrit. (Reuters)
The Shiite militias that now control the area view other Sunnis with suspicion, accusing them of sympathizing or collaborating with the extremists. Just a few miles down the road, the village of Dawr remains closed to returning residents, while militiamen have burned houses in nearby Abu Ajeel.
We are only letting families back in to al-Alam, to be more specific, only the Jabbour, said Saad al-Daraji, a Shiite militiaman manning the checkpoint. The others were supporting Daesh, he said, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State. They dont have any mercy, so why should we have mercy for them.
Some Iraqi officials also worry that if they allow residents back, Islamic State militants could mix in with returning families, posing a security threat.
But keeping them out exacerbates the Sunni-Shiite tension that underlies Iraqs violence, and have helped drive many Sunnis away from the state and toward groups like Islamic State.
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New surveys of people across Iraq show growing economic worries, more support for the new prime minister than the previous leader, and continued sharp divisions along sectarian and ethnic lines.
The data come from telephone surveys with thousands of mobile and land-line phone users, including those in areas controlled by the insurgent group that calls itself the Islamic State.
The Gallup polling organization has been doing surveys in Iraq for 10 years, and a recent study that focused on media usage in the country was commissioned by the U.S. government agency that manages the Voice of America.
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Some survey questions focused on the performance of two recent Iraqi prime ministers. In 2013, a majority of respondents in southern Iraq, a predominantly Shiite area, expressed confidence in former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. But only 13 percent of Iraqi Kurds said he earned their confidence.
Survey data show the new prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, is a more popular figure. In December 2014 he earned the confidence of 53 percent of respondents in Iraqi Kurdistan and 76 percent of those in southern Iraq, an 69 percent of those in IS-controlled areas.
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Gallup studies also show a rising number of Iraqis who describe the economic situation poor.
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