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09-04-04, 13:20
BAQUBA (Reuters) - Fighting erupted in the mixed Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim town of Baquba on Friday, with guerrillas clashing with U.S. troops and targeting buildings, witnesses said.

They said smoke was rising from the governorate building housing U.S. forces and from buildings surrounding the police station. The sound of explosions was also heard near the main U.S. base in the town, 40 miles north of Baghdad.

The fighting erupted after supporters of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and sympathizers with Sunni insurgents in Iraq took to the streets to demonstrate after Friday's prayers.
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