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US troops clashes with Shiite militia in Iraq
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-05-15 21:08
Iraqi Shi'ite youths throw stones
at a U.S. military convoy in the center of the most populated Shi'ite
district of Al-Sadr city, in Baghdad, May 15, 2004. U.S.-led forces
battled insurgents around some of the holiest Shi'ite shrines in Iraq on
Saturday. [Reuters] |
Iraqis carry the coffin during
the funeral procession for 1st Lieutenant of Iraqi Traffic Police, Bassim
Mutashre, in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday May 15, 2004. Relatives
said he was killed by US soldiers on Friday night in the mostly poor Shia
neighborhood of Sadr City, that has a large support base for radical
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and has witnessed almost daily armed clashes
with the US army. [AP] |
Shi'ite men loyal to the radical
Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr chant anti-U.S. slogans during a funeral of
a militant in Najaf, May 15, 2004.
[Reuters] |
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