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Article: U.S. and Iraqi officials raid Shiite Sadr City slum, detain 7 militia members
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
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- November 21, 2006
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. and Iraqi forces raided the overwhelmingly
Shiite Sadr City slum on Tuesday and detained seven militia members,
including one believed to have information about an American soldier
kidnapped last month, the military said.
Tuesday's raid in Sadr City was the third in four days by U.S.
and Iraqi forces in the slum, which is the headquarters of the Madhi
Army, the Shiite militia suspected of having carried out the mass
kidnapping at a Ministry of Higher Education office in Baghdad on
Nov. 14.
Iraqi Police Capt. Mohammed Ismail said a young boy and two other
people were killed in the early morning raid and 15 people were
wounded. Several houses were damaged. The U.S. ...