US, Iraqi forces find Sadr City torture chamber

CNN
A pre-dawn coalition military raid killed at least eight gunmen and uncovered a bloodstained torture chamber in a building in Baghdad's Sadr City that was later destroyed by a powerful controlled explosion. Sadr City, a densely populated Shiite neighborhood, is a stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia. Caldwell would not reveal specific information about the "known terrorist" that was the target of the intelligence-driven raid because he was still on the run. "As best we know this was some kind of Shia extremist element, some sort of secret cell," Caldwell said...

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