U.S. "Raid" in Shi'ite Area Sparks Protest

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Chanting slogans in support of a radical, anti-American, Shi'ite cleric, mourners carried coffins on Tuesday through a Baghdad district where Iraqi officials said U.S. forces killed six people in an overnight raid.

The U.S. military declined to confirm any operation in Shula, a Shi'ite enclave in mostly Sunni west Baghdad.

Interior Ministry sources said 13 people were also wounded after U.S. troops called in an air strike when they came under fire from Mehdi Army militiamen loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is under pressure from Washington to crack down on Shi'ite militias blamed for widespread sectarian killings but that, like the Mehdi Army, are tied to powerful political parties in his coalition. There was no comment from Maliki's office on the events in Shula.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-iraq-raid.html

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1. Some actual information in an article!

I wish some actual information would find it's way into TV News. Every time I hear the word "insurgents" I want to scream. It tells us nothing.