13 Shia militants killed in Sadr City
Saturday 12 April 2008
A US military statement reports the killing of at least 13 Shia militants in battles overnight in Sadr City. The eastern Baghdad slum, a stronghold of Shia militant, has been unde blockade by U.S. and Iraqi forces for two weeks.
Saturday 12 April 2008
By Reuters
BAGHDAD, April 12 (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed
at least 13 gunmen in battles overnight in Baghdad's Sadr City,
the U.S. military said on Saturday.
A military statement described a "complex" battle in the
eastern Baghdad slum, a stronghold of fighters loyal to Shi'ite
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which has been blockaded by U.S. and
Iraqi forces for two weeks.
U.S. forces fired at least one Hellfire missile from drone
aircraft and two rounds from the main battle gun of an M1 tank
against fighters who targeted them with roadside bombs, rifles
and rocket-propelled grenades, the military statement said.
Sadr City has been the scene of clashes all week. A Reuters
correspondent in the area said locals described the overnight
battles as the heaviest since government forces launched an
offensive into the slum on April 6.
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