Article: Baghdad's Sadr City embraces reconstruction ahead of Iraqi elections

Transcript: Iraq's Sadr City Not Helped by U.S. Troop ...
NPR Morning Edition;  December 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Edition 12-17-2007 Iraq's Sadr City Not Helped by U.S ... military presence in Sadr City is limited to one joint ... without an okay from Iraq's Shiite-dominated ... around the outskirts of Sadr City and they wouldn't go ...

Article: Clash in Sadr City, flare-ups around Iraq ...
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  September 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Madhani BAGHDAD, Iraq _ U.S. and Iraqi ... the Shiite slums of Sadr City. The fighting in ... Basra as well as the Sadr City slums, named in ... last September in Sadr City. Since those uprisings ... among the calmest in Iraq. Residents say members ...

Article: Sadr City residents caught in the middle of ...
AP Online;  April 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... who rule the streets. Sadr City is the Baghdad stronghold of Iraq's biggest Shiite militia ... forces on the edge of Sadr City. The stakes are high. Sadr City, an 8-square-mile ... concentration of Shiites in Iraq _ most living in cramped ...

Article: Rebuilt and at peace - Sadr City offers a glimpse ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 30, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... a glimpse of how Iraq's wider Shia community ... ascendancy. Voters in Sadr City and other Shia heartlands ... being imported into Sadr City from outside, and ... towns of southern Iraq, where there is ... guns to people in Sadr City to sell." American ...

Article: Iraq Tells U.S. to Quit Checkpoints; Sadr ...
The Washington Post;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... soaring violence between Iraq's Shiite majority and Sunni minority. Sadr City is the base of the country ... U.S. commander in Iraq, in a meeting Tuesday ... the U.S. blockade of Sadr City already had become a ... Amiri, a member of Iraq's governing Shiite ...

Article: Iranian ambassador to Iraq criticizes US military ...
AP Worldstream;  April 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... s ambassador to Iraq on Saturday denounced ... militia stronghold of Sadr City, saying they had ... a mortar crew in Sadr City at 3:30 a.m ... daily clashes in Sadr City since then have fueled ... Army stronghold in Iraq's oil capital ...

Article: IRAQ - May 20 - Operation In Sadr City Is An ...
APS Diplomat Recorder;  May 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... internal divisions among Iraq's governing Shi ... the outskirts of Sadr City and using the neighbourhood ... deliberate approach. Sadr City is a densely populated ... and other parts of Iraq, the Iraqi military ... into the heart of Sadr City. The military preparations ...