http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040405/ts_nm/iraq_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. helicopters blasted targets in Baghdad Monday in an intensifying showdown with Shi'ite Muslim radicals resisting America's postwar plans for Iraq.
U.S. forces also tackled Sunni insurgents in Falluja, where four American security men were killed last week. Residents reported heavy firing overnight and a hospital doctor said five people had been killed and three wounded.
Troops used loudspeakers to announce a night-time curfew and sealed roads around the troubled town west of Baghdad. Schools closed and the streets were empty. The U.S. military said it had also shut the nearby Baghdad-Amman highway indefinitely.
In Baghdad, Reuters journalists said they saw two Apache helicopters attacking targets in the mainly Shi'ite Shuala district, where a U.S. tank transporter was in flames.
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