World-News

In an assault on globally accepted restrictions against attacking civilians, the Pentagon this week launched a bombing campaign against an eight-square-mile area in the middle of Baghdad. After constructing a wall around key portions of Sadr City, home to some 3 million people, the United States widened its bombing of the poorest and most densely populated part of Iraq's largest city.

http://action.fcnl.org/r/11812/11836/


Informant: Gary the Grouch

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Iraqi civilians flee fighting in Baghdad militia stronghold

Miami Herald

05/06/08

A rocket slammed into Baghdad’s city hall and another hit a downtown park Tuesday as more frightened civilians fled a Shiite militia stronghold where U.S.-led forces are locked in fierce street battles. The American push in the Sadr City district - launched after an Iraqi government crackdown on armed Shiite groups began in late March - is trying to weaken the militia grip in a key corner of Baghdad and disrupt rocket and mortar strikes on the U.S.-protected Green Zone...

http://www.miamiherald.com/889/story/522711.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sadr+City
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Shiite+militia
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Green+Zone