24 killed in Iraq bombings, US troops clash with Shia militia

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/September/focusoniraq_September139.xml§ion=focusoniraq&col=

BAGHDAD - At least 24 people were killed in bombings in Iraq on Sunday as US troops clashed with Shia militiamen, rekindling tensions between coalition forces and followers of radical Shia cleric Moqtada Al Sadr.

Nine people were killed, including five police commandos from the anti-terrorist “Wolf Brigade”, when a suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden car into a police convoy in southeastern Baghdad. Twelve people were wounded. snip

Clashes erupted in Baghdad’s Shia bastion of Sadr City overnight, with an interior ministry official saying 10 militiamen loyal to Sadr had been killed after Iraqi-US forces entered the impoverished district in search of Mehdi Army leaders.

The fighting follows a week of rising tension in the southern city of Basra between British forces and Sadr’s Mehdi Army militia after the dramatic arrest and release of two British undercover soldiers.

[joanne]

1. Sounds like the insurgency is in "its last throes"

:sarcasm:

[Field Of Dreams]

3. That's why Cheney needed knee surgery...

He's been down on them praying that some how something happens that bails his ass out of the mess he has created.

[bluestateguy]

2. Oh, but the Shiites love us

Oops.

Time to draft some new talking points. Karl Rove's office is going to be busy tomorrow.