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Article: Solidified concrete blocks unleash popular protest in Sadr City-MP.

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Aswat al-Iraq (Erbil, Iraq)
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August 12, 2008
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BAGHDAD, Aug.12 (VOI) - A lawmaker from the Sadrist bloc loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday criticised putting more concrete blocks in the Shiite slum of Sadr City.

"In spite of an agreement with the security forces stationing in Sadr City to reduce the concrete blocks, they solidified the bloc with concrete slabs," MP Zainab al-Kninani from the Sadrist bloc told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).

The lawmaker stressed "the measure might increase the rising tension rampant in the district."

This third wall that will encircle Sadr City, home to about 2.5 million people in northeastern Baghdad, is ...

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