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Troops Crack Down on Simmering Sadr City

By Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
Published March 4, 2007 at 1:00 PM PST
This story was published more than 18 years ago.

U.S. and Iraqi troops moved into the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad on Sunday as part of the security crackdown they launched last month. The district is the stronghold of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Debbie Elliott talks Soraya Sahaddi-Nelson.

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Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
Special correspondent Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson is based in Berlin. Her reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning programs, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and read at NPR.org. From 2012 until 2018 Nelson was NPR's bureau chief in Berlin. She won the ICFJ 2017 Excellence in International Reporting Award for her work in Central and Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan.

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