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Issue date: 4/11/08 Section: News
Separate U.S. airstrikes on Baghdad's Sadr City leave 5 dead, 4 injured
1 BAGHDAD (AP) - Separate missile attacks by U.S. helicopters on Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood left five people dead and four injured, Iraqi police said Thursday.
The U.S. military said four gunmen were killed late Wednesday by Hellfire missiles targeting a group of men who firing at troops putting up concrete barriers around a checkpoint.
However, police who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said two of those killed in the attack were brothers aged 7 and 9.
In a separate incident, police said a man was killed and four injured when missiles hit a building in Sadr City on Thursday morning.
Sadr City is a principal stronghold of the Mahdi Army militia of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Government troops supported by the U.S. military have been fighting to gain control of the district of 2.5 million people for the past 10 days.
Bipartisan Senate bill aimed at businesses and homeowners finds little support elsewhere
2 WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic and Republican senators have crafted a package of tax breaks to help businesses and homeowners weather the housing crisis and head off deeper economic distress. Finding support for the proposal beyond the Senate may be a problem.
The Bush administration opposes the plan, saying it would make the mortgage mess worse. In the House, Democratic leaders regard the Senate proposal as skewed toward businesses rather than homeowners.
Key elements of the measure, which the Senate is expected to approve Thursday, are large tax breaks for homebuilders and credits for people who buy foreclosed properties, as well as $4 billion in grants for communities with the highest foreclosure rates to buy and rehabilitate foreclosed properties.
Senators are working to add $6 billion in tax breaks for renewable energy producers, as part of what proponents call an important first step to addressing the nation's economic woes. It also offers $100 million for pre-foreclosure counseling and stronger loan disclosure requirements.
1 BAGHDAD (AP) - Separate missile attacks by U.S. helicopters on Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood left five people dead and four injured, Iraqi police said Thursday.
The U.S. military said four gunmen were killed late Wednesday by Hellfire missiles targeting a group of men who firing at troops putting up concrete barriers around a checkpoint.
However, police who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said two of those killed in the attack were brothers aged 7 and 9.
In a separate incident, police said a man was killed and four injured when missiles hit a building in Sadr City on Thursday morning.
Sadr City is a principal stronghold of the Mahdi Army militia of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Government troops supported by the U.S. military have been fighting to gain control of the district of 2.5 million people for the past 10 days.
Bipartisan Senate bill aimed at businesses and homeowners finds little support elsewhere
2 WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic and Republican senators have crafted a package of tax breaks to help businesses and homeowners weather the housing crisis and head off deeper economic distress. Finding support for the proposal beyond the Senate may be a problem.
The Bush administration opposes the plan, saying it would make the mortgage mess worse. In the House, Democratic leaders regard the Senate proposal as skewed toward businesses rather than homeowners.
Key elements of the measure, which the Senate is expected to approve Thursday, are large tax breaks for homebuilders and credits for people who buy foreclosed properties, as well as $4 billion in grants for communities with the highest foreclosure rates to buy and rehabilitate foreclosed properties.
Senators are working to add $6 billion in tax breaks for renewable energy producers, as part of what proponents call an important first step to addressing the nation's economic woes. It also offers $100 million for pre-foreclosure counseling and stronger loan disclosure requirements.
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