US MILITARY KILLS 12 IN SADR CITY. TWO IRAQI CHILDREN WOUNDED

Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered his Mehadi militia to stop fighting, but this hasn't stopped the U.S. military from carrying out combat missions in both Basra and Sadr City.

The most recent US attack in Sadr city killed 12 people, including six Iraqi civilians and wounded two children.

US military attacks in Baghdad's Sadr City have killed twelve people, including six civilians, US military and Iraqi police say. The attacks were launched two days after influential Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on his fighters to stand down.

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In the first incident, an American helicopter fired a missile at gunmen attacking ground forces in Sadr City on Tuesday, killing six fighters, the US military claimed.

Ground forces called for the airstrike in Sadr City after gunmen fired at a tank and rolled a burning tire in their direction, said a military spokesman in Baghdad. Iraqi police and witnesses said three civilians were killed in the strike.

Later on the day US troops opened fire on civilians in Sadr city, killing three of them and wounding 6 others, including two children, according to Iraqi police.

The US military, however, denied their forces were involved in such an incident. "Despite the great initiative by Moqtada al-Sadr which has pleased Iraqis from north to south, the US troops are still besieging the city.

And the schools and government institutions are still closed," AP quoted a local resident as saying. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Iraqi Red Crescent organization said on Tuesday that they were being prevented by US forces from delivering humanitarian aid to people affected by the fighting.

"The US army don't give me permission to take the food to Sadr city to give them assistance or medical (aid) and water and food to give them to the people living in Sadr city," said Amar Sadiq from the Iraqi Red Crescent.