Iraqi police and soldiers battled Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi fighters Tuesday for control of key neighborhoods in Basra, the country's second-largest city, as the radical Shiite cleric threatened a countrywide campaign of civil revolt.

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A Sunni sheik who allied with the United States against al-Qaida forces in Iraq's Anbar Province was killed by a roadside bomb near his home in Ramadi Thursday.