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Heavy fighting in Iraqi oil city

The Iraqi army has launched raids in Basra where rival factions of the Shi'ite majority and criminal gangs are competing for control of the country's second city whose oil fields are the government's main source of revenue.

Reuters | March 25, 2008Watch more videos from Reuters

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