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Date Posted: 12:40:28 08/11/04 Wed
" Militiamen loyal to Moqtada Sadr armed with a grenade launcher and an assault rifles take position"
"In the cleric's Baghdad bastion of Sadr City, witnesses said the US military fired a missile into a residential area, destroying an empty house after a patrol came under attack."
"Smoke was seen rising from the impoverished Shiite neighbourhood as US jets roared overhead in a calculated show of force."
"Clashes raged for three and a half hours in Sadr City when a US patrol came under repeated attack. The violence was followed by sporadic gun and mortar fire."
"As a curfew was imposed from 4:00 pm for a second day running, a Sadr aide called on residents to defend their homes and urged police, security forces and insurgents to join the Mehdi Army in "their fight against the occupation.""
""What is going on in Najaf and elsewhere is mass killing by the Americans and the so-called interim government," Qais al-Khazali told reporters."
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/100150/1/.html"
ALIGN=CENTER> "And the beat goes on huh?"
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