Iraqi PM lifts Sadr City cordon - BBC News

US troops have been checking vehicles in Baghdad's Sadr City Iraq's prime minister has ordered the lifting of all US and Iraqi military checkpoints around the Shia stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad. US forces put a security cordon around the area recently as they carried out searches for an abducted soldier. The week-long restrictions, checks and searches caused increasing resentment in the densely-populated suburb. The announcement came shortly after radical Shia cleric, Moqtada Sadr, called a ...