http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080325/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq]Iraqi troops, militias clash in Basra (AP) [/URL]



AP - Iraqi forces clashed with Shiite militiamen Tuesday in the southern oil port of Basra and gunmen patrolled several Baghdad neighborhoods as followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered a nationwide civil disobedience campaign to demand an end to the crackdown on their movement.