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/ 5 April 2004

City under siege after Iraq violence

The United States military deployed 10 tanks on Monday to close off the main road into Baghdad’s Shiite suburb Sadr City after weekend violence by Shiite militants. A day after the worst street fights since the official end of the war, US forces want to prevent supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr from crowding into the district.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=33658">Troops clash with Shias</a>