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55 Dead in Basra, Baghdad Fighting
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| Last Edited | kal Mar 26, 2008 06:54am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | At least 55 people have died in two days of fighting between Shiite militias and U.S.-Iraqi forces in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra, officials said March 25. Some 300 people were reported wounded in the clashes, which present the gravest challenge to the Iraqi government in months.
The biggest toll was in Basra, the oil-rich, Shiite-majority city where an Iraqi military spokesman said 40 people were killed and 200 wounded. Col. Karim al-Zaidi did not say how many were militiamen, Iraqi soldiers or civilians caught up in the fighting.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has taken personal charge of the effort to rid Basra of militias, some of whom have ties to nearby Iran. Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been fighting U.S. and Iraqi forces in Baghdad and other cities in reaction to the Basra crackdown.
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