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Fighting Erupts In Baghdad After Week Of Relative Calm

Apr 6, 2008 - Twenty-two people were killed and 55 wounded in clashes in Baghdad, police said on Sunday, the worst eruption of violence in the capital since Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called his fighters off the streets a week ago.

The violence in Sadr's Baghdad stronghold, the Shi'ite slum of Sadr City, follows a week of relative calm after a crackdown by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sadr's followers…

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