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Fighting Forces Residents to Flee Sadr City Slum

by Ivan Watson, NPR
May 6, 2008

Civilians are fleeing Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, home to more than 2 million people, amid continued fighting between American-backed Iraqi forces and Shiite militiamen. U.S. aircraft launched four more rockets overnight into the slum.

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