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Article: Sadr City clashes hit Iraqi civilians hard.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 11, 2008
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Byline: Sam Dagher Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Baghdad -- A mini Koran and a toy cellphone was lying next to a bandaged Batoul Ahmed, barely 2 years old, as her mother wept by the bed in a Sadr City hospital Thursday, where many of the injured children have been taken during the recent spike in fighting.
In this densely populated Shiite district that has become the latest front in the US and Iraqi campaign against Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, the youngest residents are among those suffering most.
On a visit Thursday to the Imam Ali Hospital in the heart of Sadr City, almost a dozen children sought treatment as their ...