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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 11 > Truce may end fight in part of Baghdad

Truce may end fight in part of Baghdad

By Alissa J. Rubin / The Bulletin
May 11, 2008

BAGHDAD — Shiite leaders in parliament and leaders of the movement of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr agreed to a truce early Saturday that would end more than a month of bloody fighting in the vast, crowded Baghdad ghetto of Sadr City.

The hope is to stop the bloodshed there, which....

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