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Article: 20 die in raids on Sadr slums.
- Article from:
- Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain)
- Article date:
- June 11, 2008
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BAGHDAD: Twenty people were killed in Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City yesterday, security sources said, despite vehicle bans aimed at preventing unrest from spreading on the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.More than 70 people have died in Sadr City since Sunday in battles between black-masked militia loyal to cleric Moqtada Al Sadr and US and Iraqi troops.
The upsurge in fighting comes as the top US officials in Iraq testified in Washington that they opposed setting a timetable to withdraw troops from the five-year-old war.
Other parts of Baghdad were quiet, with streets clear of traffic because of a one-day vehicle ban in the capital for ...