Baghdad gunfire kills 11 Iraqis

At least 11 Iraqis have been killed when gunfire broke out after a roadside bombing in eastern Baghdad near Sadr City, police have said.

Sadr City itself remained calm, a day after some 10,000 Iraqi troops fanned out in the district in the government’s biggest move yet to establish control in the area.

Mahdi Army fighters were not visible in the streets of Sadr City, and long-closed shops began to reopen in parts of the district hardest hit by past clashes.

Iraqi soldiers and police are setting up more checkpoints to beef up their hold there.

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US Death Toll in Iraq Rises to 4,076

 

A US trooper has been killed in a road side blast in the Iraqi capital Baghdad increasing the total number of troops killed since the March 2003 invasion of the country to 4,076, the military said on Monday. The US military said in a statment that the victim was hit by an improvised explosives device while on a route clearing patrol in northwestern Baghdad on Sunday night. It said the soldier’s name was being withheld until his family could be informed. The blast was in an area outside Baghdad’s Sadr City where gunmen agreed to halt attacks from Sunday under a deal with the government. The latest US military death raised the number of US troops confirmed killed in Iraq to 4,076 since the invasion of the country in March 2003. The figure includes eight military civilians. The British military has reported 176 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia, three; Estonia, Georgia, Netherlands, Thailand, Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, South Korea, one death each.

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