Iraq Soldiers Draw Bullets in Basra
By ROBERT H. REID,
BAGHDAD — Iraqi soldiers rolled through a Shiite militia stronghold in Basra yesterday, drawing scattered bombs and bullets that wounded a camera operator for an American-funded television station and narrowly missed the commander of government troops in the city. Followers of an anti-American cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, accused the army of violating an Iranian-brokered agreement that ended last week's fighting, which erupted in Basra and quickly engulfed Baghdad and major cities of the Shiite south.
