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04/05/2004:

"US forces attack Baghdad district"

United States forces attacked armed Shiite Muslim groups in Baghdad and sealed off the town of Fallujah on Monday after dozens of people died in mounting opposition to their year-old military occupation of Iraq. Apache helicopters sprayed fire on units of the Mehdi Army, the private militia of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr.
City under siege after violence

Troops clash with Shias