Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Iraq to lift Sadr City checkpoints (AP)

Soldiers stand next to the wreckage of a vehicle used in a car bomb attack in Baghdad October 31 2006. Three civilians were killed while 10 others were wounded in the attack police said. (Namir Noor-Eldeen - IRAQ/Reuters)AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday ordered the lifting of joint U.S.-Iraqi military checkpoints around the Shiite militant stronghold of Sadr City — another apparent move to assert his authority with the Americans and appeal to his Shiite support base.


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