Crisis-hit Iraq turns to Shiite militias for support Iraq's government once battled entrenched Shiite militias but is now making common cause with them against a Sunni jihadist-led onslaught that Baghdad's forces failed to contain on their own. Shiite militiamen are fighting alongside Iraq's flagging forces, bringing experience, morale and increased numbers to the government side, which has lost large areas of five provinces to the Sunni Arab offensive. A natural sound version of an AFPTV voiced report