The U.S. military in Iraq says U.S. forces killed nine Shi'ite insurgents during battles in the Sadr City and Mansur districts of Baghdad late Sunday and early Monday .*
The clashes came hours after the wife of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani escaped unhurt from a roadside bomb attack that hit her motorcade in Baghdad.
Give a little... take a lot
The capricious, unknowable "Will of Allah."
