IRAQ: Five Years After Saddam's Statue Came Down

Deadly fighting in Baghdad as Iraq marks Saddam's fall
Iraq on Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein's iron-fisted regime with the nation still wracked by deadly violence and the capital under curfew.

Clashes broke out after midnight in Sadr City, the eastern Baghdad bastion of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, killing six people and wounding at least 15, a medical official said.

By daybreak the sprawling district of two million people which has since Sunday been wracked by fighting between Sadr's Mahdi Army militia and US and Iraqi forces in which dozens of people have died scores lie wounded, had calmed, residents said.

Sadr had last week called for a million-strong anti-American demonstration in Baghdad to mark the anniversary of Saddam's ouster by US invading forces but cancelled it on Tuesday "to save Iraqi blood."

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[angelsaints00]

The only thing that must come down is this terrible network. It sucks.