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.
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