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BAGHDAD (AP)--U.S. and Iraqi security forces clashed with rioters carrying Saddam Hussein's portrait near Baghdad Friday.
At Abu Ghraib, a town about 15 kilometers west of Baghdad, U.S. troops and Iraqi police clashed with vendors and townspeople when they tried to open up a road that had been partly blocked by market stalls.
When they began pushing back the stalls, shots rang out and people started hurling stones at police cars, police officer Faleh Hussein said. One policeman was injured in the riot, he said.
Later, the marketplace was closed and about 200 youths hurled stones at some of a half-dozen U.S. Army tanks and other armored vehicles that arrived to back up the infantrymen. Tires burned in the streets, set alight by protesters who waved pictures of Saddam and chanted "Allahu Akbar!" -"God is great!"
After a three-hour interlude, gunfire erupted again as U.S. armored vehicles moved into the area. Ten explosions were heard, and fleeing civilians said the U.S. troops had "come under attack." Within a half hour the gunshots subsided.
U.S. officers at the scene said the incident began with a grenade attack against U.S. soldiers that left two of them wounded. Later, mortars fell on an Iraqi police station near the market. The U.S. troops said they arrested two Iraqis carrying a mortar firing tube.
In Baghdad's neighborhood of Salhiya, Iraqi police and U.S. troops Friday blocked a major street after residents informed authorities about a car parked under a pedestrian bridge, fearing it was booby- trapped. Bomb experts checked a white Mitsubishi parked a few hundred meters from the U.S. occupation authorities' headquarters zone.
"At dawn, some people from the area came and told us there is a car that had been left in the street. We called the Americans and until now we don't know if it is booby-trapped or not," police Sgt. Mohammed Tariq said.
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BAGHDAD (AP)--U.S. and Iraqi security forces clashed with rioters carrying Saddam Hussein's portrait near Baghdad Friday.
At Abu Ghraib, a town about 15 kilometers west of Baghdad, U.S. troops and Iraqi police clashed with vendors and townspeople when they tried to open up a road that had been partly blocked by market stalls.
When they began pushing back the stalls, shots rang out and people started hurling stones at police cars, police officer Faleh Hussein said. One policeman was injured in the riot, he said.
Later, the marketplace was closed and about 200 youths hurled stones at some of a half-dozen U.S. Army tanks and other armored vehicles that arrived to back up the infantrymen. Tires burned in the streets, set alight by protesters who waved pictures of Saddam and chanted "Allahu Akbar!" -"God is great!"
After a three-hour interlude, gunfire erupted again as U.S. armored vehicles moved into the area. Ten explosions were heard, and fleeing civilians said the U.S. troops had "come under attack." Within a half hour the gunshots subsided.
U.S. officers at the scene said the incident began with a grenade attack against U.S. soldiers that left two of them wounded. Later, mortars fell on an Iraqi police station near the market. The U.S. troops said they arrested two Iraqis carrying a mortar firing tube.
In Baghdad's neighborhood of Salhiya, Iraqi police and U.S. troops Friday blocked a major street after residents informed authorities about a car parked under a pedestrian bridge, fearing it was booby- trapped. Bomb experts checked a white Mitsubishi parked a few hundred meters from the U.S. occupation authorities' headquarters zone.
"At dawn, some people from the area came and told us there is a car that had been left in the street. We called the Americans and until now we don't know if it is booby-trapped or not," police Sgt. Mohammed Tariq said.
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