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US aircraft have bombed suspected rebel positions in the Shia area of Sadr City in Baghdad, witnesses said.
American forces have staged regular attacks on the suburb - a stronghold of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr.
The US has not confirmed Monday's raid. But the reports came as Washington promised to crush Iraqi insurgents ahead of elections due in January.
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said large-scale assaults would wrest trouble spots from the militants.
"That's what happened in Samarra," he told the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York-based think-tank.
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American forces have staged regular attacks on the suburb - a stronghold of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr.
The US has not confirmed Monday's raid. But the reports came as Washington promised to crush Iraqi insurgents ahead of elections due in January.
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said large-scale assaults would wrest trouble spots from the militants.
"That's what happened in Samarra," he told the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York-based think-tank.
BBC Read More
