Residents fight back in city of anarchy

TAKING the law into their own hands, Baghdad residents blockaded streets and beat up looters yesterday as disorder spread in the Iraqi capital.

The United States said the military does not intend to act as a police force.

Thousands of Iraqis including entire families plundered and burned government ministries and other symbols of Saddam Hussein's regime in a third straight day of lawlessness that began with the arrival of US troops in Baghdad.