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Article: Clash in Sadr City, flare-ups around Iraq Sunday kill more than 20.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- September 25, 2005
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Byline: Aamer Madhani
BAGHDAD, Iraq _ U.S. and Iraqi soldiers clashed with gunmen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr early Sunday, trading fire in a long-running gun battle that broke nearly a year of calm between U.S. soldiers and militiamen in the Shiite slums of Sadr City.
The fighting in the densely populated enclave of eastern Baghdad came on a day that left more than 20 people dead in a series of insurgent attacks across the country.
Eight people, including several Mahdi Army soldiers, were killed in the fighting in Sadr City, according to Iraqi officials. A spokesman at al-Sadr's offices in Sadr City put the death count at ...