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Article: Iraqis, Americans, Poles target Sadr's Mahdi Army
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- October 21, 2007
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BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi forces, backed by Polish army
helicopters, swept through Shiite militia strongholds south of
Baghdad on Saturday, rounding up dozens of militants and killing
two. The prime minister met the provincial governor, who called for
reinforcements to root out "the criminals."
Iraqi police said 30 suspected fighters linked to Shiite cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army were grabbed in a pre-dawn house-to-
house search by U.S. and Iraqi raiders in two eastern neighborhoods
in Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad.
Rival Shiite militias are engaged in grabs for power in the oil-
rich south of the country, as British forces are drawing down.
However, U.S. commanders have reported ...