munaeem | 06 April, 2007 07:39
According to reports, Iraqi and U.S. troops fought militiamen in districts in southeast Diwaniya, a stronghold of Sadr's Mehdi Army.
Clashes left one person dead and 19 others wounded. Hamid Gaati, head of the local department of health, and a security official complained that US forces of preventing ambulances from transporting the wounded to hospital.
Diwaniya is a stronghold of Shi'ite militia loyal to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The United States regards Sadr, a key political ally of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and his Mehdi Army militia as the greatest threat to peace in Iraq.
Residents welcomed the operation and said the militias have been ruling the city through fear.
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