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Several other neighborhoods in Baghdad also have reported fighting between the Mahdi militia and Iraqi police and army forces.
NPR: Clashes with Militants Test Iraqi Security Forces
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Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, a Shia, has repeatedly stressed that the military campaign he launched in March, backed by American and British forces, was not directed against any one faction, certainly not just the Mahdi militia.
ECONOMIST: Iraq, Iran and the United States
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As they neared the besieged house, the Kurdish soldiers shot over the heads of the Shia gunmen, identified by locals as members of the Mahdi militia loyal to a Shia firebrand, Muqtada al-Sadr, and told them to leave the area.
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