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Tu Ap 18 -

ADHAMIYAH SHUT DOWN -

Clashes which broke out today have forced the closure of this mainly Sunni district of northern Baghdad. Shops were closed and residents remain indoors. Journalists are unable to enter the area.

*U.S. officials referred to the gunmen as insurgents. But some residents said they were simply neighborhood men who feared that the Iraqi troops were working with Shiite death squads who had come to kidnap and kill Sunnis.*

+ This is beginning to sound like what happened in Sarajavo.

TBO: AP Int'l

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