Joint force weighs move on Sadr City

Los Angeles Times - by Borzou Daragahi - Feb. 21, 2007 (Special Report)
The vast Baghdad slum harbors a key militia but a sweep could backfire.
U.S. and Iraqi forces have moved aggressively in the last week to combat Sunni Arab insurgents in neighborhoods across the capital and to establish a stronger presence in religiously mixed districts long plagued by sectarian violence.

But as the new security crackdown enters a second week, they face their most sensitive challenge: whether, when and how to move into the Shiite-dominated slum of Sadr City, stronghold of the Al Mahdi militia. More »
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