From Yahoo News:BAGHDAD - The U.S. military fired guided missiles into the heart of Baghdad's teeming Sadr City slum on Saturday, leveling a building 55 yards away from a hospital and wounding nearly two dozen people.
Separately, the U.S. military said late Saturday that four Marines were killed on Thursday by a roadside bomb in Anbar province. The military also said that a U.S. soldier died of wounds suffered in a roadside bomb that struck the soldier's vehicle during a combat patrol in eastern Baghdad Friday. At least 4,071 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Also:
Mahdi Army Fighters Grateful For Sand Storm Standstills In Sadr City -- Times Online
Update: Iraqis Begin To 'Despise' The Mahdi Army In Baghdad's Rusafa District -- Long War Journal
My Comment: Sadr is being squeezed.
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