Baghdad Clashes Leave 400 Dead

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5-1-2008 3:10 AM

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</P><P>Five US soldiers have been killed in fighting in Baghdad since Tuesday. 
</P><P>April has been the most lethal month for US troops in Iraq, with 49 deaths, since September, when 65 soldiers died. 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7374948.stm"><P>Staff at the hospitals are worried they are running out of clean water and do not have enough severe trauma specialists to treat all those who need help. 
</P><P>An Iraqi government spokesman, Tahsin al-Sheikhli, later said as many as 925 people had died in the Sadr City fighting</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C2D4F129-0BC9-4C9A-8006-952F1FD9FEF8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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