http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080327/ts_afp/iraqunrestbasra]Heavy fighting rocks Iraq's Basra city (AFP)[/URL]



AFP - Heavy fighting erupted in a bastion of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militia in Basra onThursday, witnesses said, as military operations against gunmen in the southern city entered a third day.