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...crackling gunfire of AK-47s could be heard near the eastern edge of the Green Zone Thursday morning, and rockets landed in the neighborhoods of Salhiyya, Karada, and al-Allawi. An Iraqi police source told TIME that a car bomb had also been detonated outside a hospital in Andalus Square in central Baghdad. In the district of Khadamiya, a joint American and Iraqi force fought a gun battle Thursday afternoon against armed militants. And local media reported that unidentified gunmen had kidnapped government civilian spokesman for security, Tahsin al-Sheikli, from his home in the al-Amin district of Baghdad...
News from the south of Iraq was no less grim. In Basra, Iraqi forces pressed their three-day offensive against what both Iraqi and Coalition forces continue to call "criminal elements." Spokesmen for Moqtada al-Sadr have openly denounced the military campaign and called for the immediate withdrawal of Iraqi forces. In what is widely regarded as an effort to maintain the precarious ceasefire renewed by Sadr in February, both coalition forces and the Iraqi military have carefully avoided referring to the armed fighters as Sadr's supporters, but rather as unaffiliated criminals and thugs. "The operation in Basra...
...Green Zone are believed to have emanated from the Mahdi Army Sadr City stronghold, the U.S. embassy would not say where they were originating from "for security reasons." It is not known whether the U.S. military was moving against the perpetrators of the attack. It is known, however, that Iraqi police have clashed with Sadrists in Sadr City...
...Basra on Monday in a show of force against the "criminals." He has given the armed fighters 72 hours to surrender their weapons, a deadline that runs out this weekend. In the Green Zone in Baghdad, Senior British Military Representative Lieutenant Colonel Michael Shearer told TIME that the Iraqi operation is aimed at quelling criminal activity, and that the city has never been under the "control" of militant groups...
...wire reports and eyewitnesses have reflected a far more ferocious battle. Reports indicate that more than 100 people have been killed, and hundreds more wounded since the start of the attack on Tuesday. And independent Iraqi news network al-Sharqia aired footage from Basra of masked, armed men standing atop what it said was the burned carcasses of Iraqi military humvees, with "Jaish al-imam"--Army of the Imam--graffitied on the sides...