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Article: Iraqi troops meet no resistance as they take positions in Sadr City
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2008
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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
buildings pockmarked with bullet holes, signs of years of clashes.
But many stores were open, and some residents came out to ...