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7 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Baghdad, U.S. Army Says
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Originally posted by Not Me
This is pretty awful:
http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/s...=wn_wire_story
- 7 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Baghdad, U.S. Army Says
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in fierce clashes with Shi'ites in Baghdad's impoverished slum area of Sadr City, a U.S. military spokesman said Monday.
U.S. military officials in Baghdad said Shi'ite militiamen had tried to take over police stations and government buildings without success using small arms and grenade launchers.
More than two dozen U.S. soldiers were wounded.
Shi'ite supporters of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr clashed with troops in several Iraqi cities Sunday.
In the worst clashes at Kufa near Najaf, 20 Iraqis, one American and one Salvadoran soldier were killed.
Fighting began there after protesting militiamen marched on a Spanish-run military base to denounce the arrest of an aide to Sadr and the closure by U.S. officials of a militant Baghdad newspaper.
Oppressed under former President Saddam Hussein, Iraq's Shi'ites have grown increasingly vocal in the year since U.S.-led forces ousted Saddam and want their clear majority of the population to be reflected in a future Iraqi government.
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Maybe I'm misreading that article, but it kinda makes it sound like we're fighting Iraqi Shi'ites, not foreign terrorists.
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