More U.S. attacks on poor Shi'ite districts. Bush Hearts & Minds Campaign

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The sound of heavy bombardments echoed across Baghdad from the poor Shi'ite district of Sadr City on Tuesday morning, following a night of sustained U.S. aerial attacks, residents said.

Residents of Sadr City said U.S. fighter planes struck parts of the huge slum area throughout the night, and dozens of tanks patrolled the streets. The U.S. military said it had no immediate information on operations in the area.

On Tuesday morning, half a dozen resounding booms sounded from the area, possibly caused by U.S. tank fire.

Al Jazeera television said the overnight aerial strikes had caused a power outage throughout the district, on Baghdad's northeast side.

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U.S. hits targets in Falluja, Sadr City
Tuesday, September 28, 2004

U.S. says civilians unaffected- Conflicting accounts:

U.S. warplanes struck in Fallujah about 4 a.m., and there was no word on casualties. Early reports showed that no civilians were in the area when the blast went off, the military said.

The military said that weeks of airstrikes in rebel-held Fallujah had exacted a heavy toll on al-Zarqawi’s network and that intelligence indicated that the al-Qaida-linked group had been forced to reorganize its leadership.

Monday night, U.S. warplanes were spotted over the city and explosions were heard. Residents said they saw a plane firing rockets into the city, but U.S. Marine officers said only illumination rounds were fired.

Dr. Walid Thamer of Fallujah General Hospital said that at least three people were killed and that nine others were wounded in that attack. The conflicting accounts could not immediately be reconciled.
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A U.S. helicopter provides support during clashes with Iraqi insurgents in Haifa street, Baghdad, Iraq , Tuesday Sept. 28, 2004. Haifa Street, an insurgent stronghold, has been the scene of bloody car bomb attacks, raids and fierce firefights. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
AP - Sep 28 6:46 AM



A US Kiowa helicopter hovers over Haifa Street in the center of Baghdad following brief clashes with insurgents.(AFP/Marwan Naamani)



A wounded Iraqi stands in front of a wall damaged by shrapnel and decorated with a poster of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr (R) in Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr City. An Egyptian hostage was freed in Iraq as two British soldiers were killed in a flare-up of violence in southern Iraq and US warplanes again pounded the rebel-held town of Fallujah.(AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
AFP - Sep 28 5:08 AM



Saeed Majid al-Musawi, a representative of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, gives out an envelope containing money to Batul Ghali at Imam Ali hospital in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq , Tuesday Sept. 28, 2004. Al-Sadr's representatives distributed money to people injured in the ongoing fight between the U.S. army and al-Sadr's supporters in Sadr City. Ghali was injured in an U.S. airstrike in Sadr City on Monday. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 28 3:36 AM



An Iraqi girl looks at British soldiers patrolling a street in Basra. A pair of Egyptian hostages were freed as two British soldiers were killed in a rare flare-up of violence in southern Iraq and US warplanes again pounded Fallujah.(AFP/File/Essam Al-Sudani)
AFP/File - Sep 28 3:12 AM

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