Blockade on Iraq's Sadr City to be lifted Saturday

A two-week old ban on vehicles in Baghdad's eastern Shiite slum of Sadr City will be lifted on Saturday, the Iraqi military said on Wednesday.

Major-General Qassim Moussawi, a military spokesman, said the effective blockade on cars entering or leaving Sadr City, the scene of fierce clashes in past days between Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia and both US and Iraqi security forces, would end at 6 am (0300 GMT) on Saturday. (Reuters)