Siege of Sadr City
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siege-of-sadr-city-166-8245338
title:
Siege of Sadr City
text:
The siege of Sadr City was a blockade of the Shi'a district of northeastern Baghdad carried out by US and Iraqi government forces in an attempt to destroy the main power base of the insurgent Mahdi Army in Baghdad. The siege began on 4 April 2004 – later dubbed "Black Sunday" – with an uprising against the Coalition Provisional Authority following the government banning of a newspaper published by Muqtada Al-Sadr's Sadrist Movement. The most intense periods of fighting in Sadr City occurred duri
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Aspect of 2003–2011 Iraq War
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sadr_City
date created:
2008-04-06T16:31:51Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T20:13:39Z
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