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Troops from the US army's 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team head into Baghdad to scout out a mainly Shiite slum area near Sadr City, bastion to the Mahdi Army militia 03 October 2006. The mission would be marred by the death of one of the soldiers, killed by a sniper after the troops visited a school.
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