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| | The History Guy: The Third Persian Gulf War (2003) |
 | | April 7: British forces reach the center of Basra and declare the city is under Coalition control. |
 | | Between mid-April, 2003 and early April, 2004, most hostile actions were between the Coalition forces and the old Saddam holdouts and a growing Sunni resistance. |
 | | Then, on April 4, 2004, as American troops were already engaged with Sunni insurgents in Fallujah, an uprising was launched by the Shiite Mahdi Army, a militia organized and led by a Shiite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr. |
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