Iraqi tension built as U.S. miscalculated
Fallujah and Shiite cleric represent a 2-front war
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A crowd of Iraqis loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr cheer Thursday after attacking and burning two vehicles in a convoy west of Baghdad destined for U.S. troops.
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Anthony Shadid
Updated: 11:55 p.m. ET April 10, 2004BAGHDAD, Iraq - "Bremer follows in the footsteps of Saddam," screamed the headline in al-Hawza, a tabloid newspaper run by firebrand Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr. With incendiary language, the article accused L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator of Iraq, of deliberately starving the Iraqi people.
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Iraqi tension built as U.S. miscalculated