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Article: Iraqi troops meet no resistance as they take positions in Sadr City

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BAGHDAD -- Some 10,000 Iraqi troops fanned out in Baghdad's Sadr City on Tuesday, taking positions on main roads, rooftops and near hospitals in an attempt to establish government control in the Shiite militia enclave for the first time since Saddam Hussein's ouster.

Success relies on whether a truce holds with fighters loyal to anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

The large force in tanks and Humvees and on foot met no resistance from al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia as it rolled into the sprawling district.

The Iraqi soldiers and police passed burned-out shops and

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