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Last Updated: Wednesday, 7 April, 2004, 13:53 GMT 14:53 UK
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In pictures: Iraq turmoil
Guard outside the Great Mosque of Kufa, one of Moqtada Sadr's haunts
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Militants loyal to Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr are leading a revolt which could force a rethink of coalition strategy.
Gunmen in Sadr City
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Shia gunmen celebrate beside the wreckage of a US Humvee jeep in Sadr City, Baghdad.
Baghdad hospital ward
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Um Ali, a Shia mother from Sadr City, weeps by the hospital bed of her wounded three-year-old, Ali Majeed.
Marines recover from a firefight on the outskirts of Falluja
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US soldiers are also fighting to "pacify" the mainly Sunni city of Falluja after recent attacks there.
Sunni gunmen in Falluja
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Militants armed with guns and grenade-launchers are putting up tough resistance on Falluja's streets.
Returning soldier is hugged by a young girl in Zaragoza, Spain
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Spanish soldiers have been returning home in a troop rotation ahead of the country's expected full pull-out in the summer...
US marines dug in at a railway line outside Falluja
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...while the US Army is firmly rooted to the ground, depending on a political settlement that could be in danger of slipping away.


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