U.S. aircraft bombed the Sadr City office of militant Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad early on Monday, witnesses said. They said a U.S. aircraft dropped at least one bomb on the one-storey office around 2 a.m. and virtually destroyed it. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military, which reported 19 members of Sadr’s Medhi Army militia were killed in a series of clashes in the impoverished Shi’ite neighbourhood on Sunday.
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U.S. forces had raided the Sadr City office in the early hours of Sunday and arrested two people, one of them said to be a Mehdi Army financier, U.S. military spokesmen said. The raid was part of a stepped up military campaign against an uprising launched by the Shi’ite cleric against U.S.-led forces a month ago. |