U.S. and Iraqi troops on Tuesday finished two weeks of building-by-building sweeps in a Shiite section of Baghdad that had been wracked with sectarian violence, part of a campaign launched this summer to try and pacify the capital. The north Baghdad neighborhoods of Shaab and Ur have been strong supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose main center of power in the Sadr City area is just east of them. Full Story
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