Shiite militants and U.S. forces battle in Baghdad, five killed

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/241/world/Shiite_militants_and_U_S_force:.shtml

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Saad al-Amili, a Health Ministry official, said three people were killed and 25 wounded in the skirmishes. A young boy was receiving an intravenous drip at the hospital, while a little girl in a pink dress grimaced at the large, bleeding wound in her leg.

Militants fired eight mortars at U.S. troops, but all of them missed and instead hit an electricity substation, cutting power to five or six blocks of Sadr City, U.S. Capt. Brian O'Malley of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, said. U.S. forces suffered no casualties.

Insurgents also fired a round of mortars into a crowded eastern Baghdad neighborhood, killing two boys washing cars in a street, said Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman. At least four mortar rounds landed within an hour in the same area, sending panicked pedestrians scrambling for safety, witnesses said.

The dead teenagers were taken to a nearby morgue, where tearful relatives pounded their chests in grief and others hugged and kissed the boy's bodies. At least six other people were injured, said Bashir Mohammed of Baghdad's al-Kindi hospital.

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The glory of war.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. Kicking because we can't forget the horrors of what the Bush Junta

has created.

[realFedUp]

2. Shia aren't going away

and in fact American opposition to Al Sadr
just inspired more of them, not fewer.