Sadr City Audio & Video
Sun, 11 May 2008
NPR Hourly Newscast
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[4:02]..." A cease fire appears to be holding in the Shiite slum of Sadr City in Baghdad today no violence is reported as gunmen withdrew in shops reopened. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spent his Mother's Day"...
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Sat, 10 May 2008
NPR Hourly Newscast
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[1:33]..." medicine food and water there. More than two million people live in Sadr City most of them Shiites. Iraqi officials say that the sick and landed will be evacuated in the next four days Katie and"...
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Thu, 8 May 2008
Here and Now for Thursday, May 8, 2008
[description] Iraqi soldiers are warning residents to leave the embattled Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, ahead of what might be a larger offensive by US and Iraqi forces against Shiite militiamen. We speak with Tina Susman, Baghdad bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. Slavery did not end with the end of the Civil War. In fact it went on in a different form until World War II. Free blacks were arrested on trumped up charges all across the south and were leased to landowners and industries. They were often forced to work in coal mines or lumber mills under horrific conditions. Douglas Blackmon uncovers this history in in his new book "Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II." The farm bill, funding for the war in Iraq and more. We speak with Gail Chaddock, Capitol Hill correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. Almost half of all women who leave the workforce to have children never return. But they would if they could f
[2:04]..." war went sour how much of a presence on the ground in Sadr City to US troops have now."...
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Tue, 6 May 2008
NPR Hourly Newscast
[description] A brief update of the top news of the hour
[2:17]..." Most of the rockets launched from Sadr City in recent weeks have struck in and around the Green -- But 3 rockets hit in central Baghdad landing at a park and -- university. The majority of the casualties in Baghdad continue to take place in the Shiite slum of Sadr City . Where US backed American forces are using Abrams tanks and 100 pound missiles fired from drone aircraft. Hundreds of residents were seen"...
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Mon, 5 May 2008
NPR Hourly Newscast
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[0:18]..." cleric Muqtada -- fighters Tehran denies the charge. Meanwhile in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad today US and Iraqi forces continue to battle elements of -- Mehdi army. The US military says it continues"...
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Mon, 28 Apr 2008
Iraqi Leaders Agree to More Talks
[description] Iraqi leaders have agreed to a third round of peace and reconciliation talks.
[4:44]..." call through from his brother to say that he was cautioned in Sadr City . I don't fighting going on and he could not get out. So but it was impossible -- treatment for him within three"...
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Fri, 18 Apr 2008
Patrick Cockburn: The New War in Iraq
[description] Patrick Cockburn's account of the Iraqi Army's flight from battle is that the US is trying to foment a civil war among the Shia majority that the Baghdad government cannot win.
[31:47]..." those -- rationing system but it's being collapse. So in place like Sadr City you might have a widow with five children. Who's going to starve and she gets. The -- cool centrist office to pay."...
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Thu, 17 Apr 2008
Here and Now for Thursday, April 17, 2008
[description] At least 50 are dead after a suicide bomber struck the funeral of two Sunni brothers who had joined the US backed Awakening Council movement to fight Al Qaeda. More than a hundred Iraqis have been killed in a series of bombings around the country this week, raising fears that insurgent groups are re-organizing in Iraq. With Ned Parker, Baghdad Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. What's the fallout from last night's bruising Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia last night? We speak with Donald Kettl, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government, and Rob Christensen, longtime political reporter for the Raleigh News and Observer in North Carolina and author of new history of 20th century North Carolina politics, called "The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics." As the Pope visits the United States, we speak with Boston College history professor, James O'Toole. His new book is "The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America." He says the churc
[0:50]..." in Shiite militia loyal to cleric in town on Saturday in Baghdad's Sadr City . -- parker is Baghdad correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. -- tell us first more about these brothers whose funeral was targeted"...
[2:47]..." look at the -- shia violence which is taking place largely in Sadr City . These are a US backed Iraqi troops that are fighting fighters loyal to declare the town -- What how how is that standoff in Sadr City going."...
[3:40]..." out -- stand your ground against these militiaman in the in in Sadr City what's the sense of how well the Iraqi forces are doing facing other -- and Sadr City ."...
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Sun, 13 Apr 2008
NPR News: 04-13-2008 7PM ET
[description] NPR News: 04-13-2008 7PM ET
[0:45]..." stronghold of the -- the army is the massive Shiite slum of Sadr City in Baghdad. There are more than 300 people are being dismissed from the Iraqi forces for the same reasons. The efforts against"...
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Fri, 11 Apr 2008
My WBZ Afternoon Headlines 04/11/2008
[description] Fire fighters hard at work in Framingham, the Patrick Poll shows bad numbers, and the Yankees invade Fenway, these stories and more, in the WBZ Afternoon News.
[4:42]..." in the city Shula neighborhood has been lifted a similar ban in Sadr City is expected to be lifted on Saturday. Surprising admission from president Boris. ABC's Martha raddatz interviewed the president at his ranch in"...
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