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w320"><a href="#storyContinued">Story continues below ↓</a><hr noshade size="1"> advertisement <div style="padding:0 10 10 10;"><script>ad_dap(250,300,'&PG=NBCMSN&AP=1089');</script></div><hr noshade size="1"></div></div><a name="storyContinued"></a><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Despite the stepped-up security, a parked car bomb struck the northern district of Qahira, killing four civilians and wounding six, police Lt. Ali Mitaab said.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Clashes broke out in the northern Sunni district of Azamiyah, with heavy exchanges of gunfire sending residents scurrying for cover. The clashes took place near the Grand Imam Abu Hanifa mosque, the holiest Sunni Muslim shrine in Iraq. There were reports of casualties or other details.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Most stores were closed in Azamiyah and mostly Sunni Dora, two strongholds of the insurgency. Entire streets in Dora, southern Baghdad, were deserted, including al-Moalemeem road, dubbed “Death Road” by residents because of the frequent clashes there between Sunni insurgents and security forces and sectarian killings.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span><b><strong>Iraqi, U.S. troops on alert</strong></b><br>In Baghdad’s central and mainly Shiite Karradah district, beset by a series of car bombs in the past week, Iraqi army troops patrolled on foot. Some were deployed at main intersections in pickup trucks with machine-guns mounted on their roofs.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>U.S. troops patrolled parts of Baghdad in convoys of up to four Humvees. They used the more heavily armored Bradley fighting vehicles in Dora.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Traffic was heaviest in areas where security forces were deployed in large numbers, forcing traffic to one lane. 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