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US troops arrest at least 40 Iraqi Interior Ministry troops holding 17 foreigners in a secret bunker complex, while at least 18 Iraqis are killed after US troops clash with a Shi'ite militia. The developments came hours after 30 bodies, most of them beheaded, were found on the main street of a village north of Baghdad. A Reuters reporter who approached the bunker complex on Mar 26 was turned away by Shi'ite militiamen. US troops last year found 173 mostly Sunni Arab prisoners held in a secret Interior Ministry bunker. They showed signs of torture and malnourishment. Meanwhile, police said the clashes erupted after the Mehdi Army militia loyal to theologian Muqtada al-Sadr tried to stop US troops from entering a mosque. A medic...
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