Mohanad al-Taeey

Fears of an Iraqi security split

Baghdad remains a city of barriers - concrete slabs protect government buildings, seal roads and close off neighbourhoods. Barricades stand between communities, and checkpoints are everywhere in the Iraqi capital.

This is still a dangerous city, where political and sectarian fault lines run deep.

Some Iraqis fear these same fault lines are reflected within the security forces, and question whether all their guns are pointed in the same direction.

Parliamentary elections on March 7 produced no clear winner and Mohanad al-Taeey, who works at a store next to one of Baghdad's many checkpoints, told me that he fears security forces may fight each other in the absence of a political agreement on the next government.

"We have Sunni and Shia forces – if someone doesn’t get the position they want in government, they may use force," Mohanad says.