Militiamen loyal to firebrand Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr blew up a police station which had been occupied by the US army in their Baghdad bastion of Sadr City, witnesses and a militia source said today.
"US forces left the Karama police station ... and the militiamen came an hour and half later with explosives and blew up the building," one witness said.
He said residents of the northeastern Baghdad slum had pleaded with them not to blow up the building for fear of US reprisals. But the insurgents had chanted "Moqtada, Moqtada" before setting off the explosion.
A man who claimed to be from Sadr's office said: "We decided to attack because US forces have been holed up in this place and attacking people from here."
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