32 held in Iraqi crackdown

Coalition troops and Iraqi police arrested 32 people in raids in the holy city of Karbala, where rival factions of Iraq’s resurgent Shiite Muslims are vying over mosques and political power.

In Baghdad, US troops fired in the air to disperse an angry crowd at the Oil Ministry after a woman, offended by the Americans’ use of dogs, objected to a search of a bag holding the Islamic holy book.