Iraqi soldiers on patrol during search operations after a gunfight sparked Saturday at the dominantly Sunni neighborhood of Fadhil in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 29, 2009. U.S. and Iraqi troops exchanged gunfire Sunday with Sunni militants in central Baghdad in a second day of clashes following the arrest of a local leader of Sunni security volunteers who had broken with al-Qaida. The Arabic words on the wall read 'house of death.' (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)From Yahoo News/AP:
BAGHDAD – U.S.-backed Iraqi forces swept through a central Baghdad slum Sunday, disarming Sunnis from a government-allied paramilitary group to quell a two-day uprising launched to protest the arrest of their leader.
At least four people were killed and 21 wounded in the two days of fighting between government troops and the Awakening Council in Fadhil, a ramshackle warren of narrow, fetid streets on the east side of the Tigris River where al-Qaida once held sway.
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My Comment: The AP is right .... if there is one thing that can make the Americans stay in Iraq beyond their scheduled departure date .... it is the Sunni tribes of Iraq. This situation bears close watching.
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