Fighting Rages Across Iraq as Battles Erupt with Mahdi Army

Fighting Rages Across Iraq as
Battles Erupt with Mahdi Army
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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Fighting erupted today in the southern oil-export city of Basra where Iraqi forces have launched a major crackdown on the Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army...

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* PBS.org has this troubling report out on the story and it starts off like this... Iraqi police and soldiers battled Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi fighters Tuesday for control of key neighborhoods in Basra, the country's second-largest city, as the radical Shiite cleric threatened a countrywide campaign of civil revolt...
Read this report in full HERE

* EURONews.net has this text/video report...
Iraqi Shi'ite cleric threatens widespread "civil revolt"
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* CSMonitor.com reports it this way...
Across Iraq, battles erupt with Mahdi Army

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More on this story Wednesday as new info comes in...

AubreyJ.........

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