132 Wounded in Sadr City; The $3 Trillion Shopping Spree

132 Wounded in Sadr City;
The $3 Trillion Shopping Spree

The spring dust storms in Baghdad have given cover to renewed guerrilla fighting there. On Thursday Iraqi guerrillas used the cover of the dust storms to bombard the Green Zone with mortar shells. On Friday clashes broke out between Mahdi Army militiamen in Sadr City and Iraqi and US troops at the edges of the vast Shiite slum. Local hospitals reported 132 wounded were brought in, in the aftermath.

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Labels: Iraq

posted by Juan Cole @ 4/19/2008 09:06:00 AM