6 chain explosions rock Sadr City – eyewitnesses

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Six successive explosions rocked the eastern Baghdad district of Sadr city during a late hour of Saturday night but there is no word on casualties or losses, according to eyewitnesses in the area. “The explosions were successive and powerful,” a local resident in Sadr City told IraqiNews.com news agency. Sadr City is the key stronghold of the Sadrists, or Iraqis loyal to Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr. The district has witnessed in late March 2008 bloody confrontations between security forces backed by Multi-National Force (MNF) troops on one hand and fighters from Sadr’s Mahdi Army militias. The clashes later ended with an agreement between the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) bloc, to which incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki belongs, and representatives from the Sadrist Movement. AmR (P) 1