US Troops Clash With Rioters in Baghdad

AMERICAN troops clashed with rioters carrying Saddam Hussein’s picture in Baghdad yesterday and heavy smoke billowed from the mayor’s office in a city west of the capital following a big explosion.

In northern Iraq, American troops sealed off the village where Saddam was born and began issuing identity cards to the villagers to determine who can move in and out.

There were conflicting claims about what triggered the clash at Abu Ghraib, a suburb on the western side of the capital.