The governor of the Iraqi province where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed this month called in the army after clashes between Sunni and Shi'ite fighters north of Baghdad on Friday, police and his office said. But Defense Ministry spokesman denied receiving a request to dispatch army units to Muqdadiya in Diyala province, an ethnically mixed area where sectarian violence has deepened in recent weeks.The U.S. military said U.S.-led forces killed three insurgents and captured four in clashes that began on Thursday in the nearby village of Khairnabat, where police and witnesses said Shi'ite militias had attacked Sunnis fleeing the town.The large, mixed region northeast of Baghdad has seen some of the worst bloodletting since a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime in 2003....
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