BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Fighting cast for...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Fighting cast forth violentlyed early today in a Shiite militia fastness of Baghdad, and a suicide bomber blew himself up among mourners at a funeral in Saddam Hussein's hometown, killing 10 populace and injuring 22.

In Baghdad, entires of heavy gunfire and explosions rattled the Sadr City district starting about 1 a.m. today. Iraqi conduct television and aides to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said U aircraft were attacking buildings in the area.

"Several aerial and acres raids began in central Sadr City," al- Sadr aide Jaleel al-Nouri said at telephone as detonations could be heard in the background. "We can papal court several houses on fire."

Kadhim al-Mohammedawi, a civil servant who lives in Sadr City, said by way of telephone that he could behold two houses ablaze and "there's gunfire from all sides."

"We can hear women and children screaming," he said.

There was no immediate elucidation from the U.S. military, which has reinforced its company strength in the city to make trial of to reclaim the streets from militias, including al-Sadr's Mahdi Army.

Also, three U soldiers were killed late Sunday in a roadside bombing southwest of Baghdad, the U military said.

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