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| Around 20 Iraqis Killed, Wounded In Baghdad's Sadr City |
| 2004-06-20 |
| Around 20 Iraqi insurgents were killed or wounded in a day of clashes with U.S. soldiers in the Baghdad Shiite slum of Sadr City earlier in the week, the U.S. military said on Saturday. "A number of patrols around Sadr City were ambushed by small arms fire and RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades), it went on throughout the day," said a U.S. military spokesman, referring to the fighting that raged on Thursday. "Around about 20 were killed or wounded," he told AFP. Small, armed bands attacked the U.S. patrols as they went about their work in Sadr City, a packed neighborhood of around two million people, which is named after the father of firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr, who was killed by Saddam Hussein's agents in 1999. "We rendered the teams ineffective," said the spokesman, though he declined to give an exact breakdown of the dead and injured. "There were no coalition casualties or damage to our equipment," he added. Sporadic fighting between the U.S. Army and Sadr's Mehdi Army militia have claimed the lives of several people in the past week alone. Family and medical sources said six Iraqis lost their lives last Sunday, while two Iraqi children were killed and 23 people injured in fighting on June 11. The impoverished neighborhood is a Sadr stronghold where the rebel cleric's militiamen have clashed repeatedly with U.S. troops since he launched his uprising against the U.S.-led occupation more than two months ago. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 "We rendered the teams ineffective" now that's a understatement - I like it |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-20 12:35:00 PM |