Renewed fights in Sadr City leave at least 8 people dead

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/26/iraq.main/index.html

Firefights and airstrikes crippled parts of Sadr City anew. The ignorance with what people are dying there for five years now is shocking. The oil price spirals out of control. For the transportation costs, the food price meanwhile also. The Republican regime cannot be called ignorant anymore, its simply fascist. Its just the combination out of national interest and the interest of the oil lobby.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Firefights and U.S. airstrikes killed at least eight people in Baghdad's violence-wracked Sadr City overnight, while insurgent attacks killed four in Baghdad, Tikrit and Diyala province Saturday morning, Iraqi officials said.

Forty-six people were injured in the violence across Iraq -- 28 of them in the sprawling Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, where U.S. and Iraqi forces have been battling Shiite militiamen for a month.
South of Baghdad, Iraqi firefighters brought a pipeline blaze, ignited by an accidental explosion on Friday evening, under control early Saturday, officials said.
An Iraqi Interior Ministry official said the eight dead in Sadr City included two children.
Saturday morning saw a wave of violence across multiple locations.
Three Iraqi soldiers were hurt when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol in northeastern Baghdad's Sleikh neighborhood, an Interior Ministry official said.
Gunmen in a car opened fire 30 minutes later on traffic police in central Baghdad's al-Wathiq square, wounding five people, the official said.