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To: GST who wrote (140370)7/15/2004 8:57:20 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Thanks for citing a source. Looks like 2 million is used more often than 3 million for whatever that's worth:

globalsecurity.org
Sadr City's neighborhoods are tightly packed, with an estimated 2 million people living in an area of 8 square miles..

www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8757012.htm
Home to a third of Baghdad's population of 5 million, Sadr City is a cauldron of misery ..

www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0405/dis_russell.html
American tanks sat on the outskirts of the vast Sadr City slum, where over 2 million Shiites live,..

abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/World/sadr_city_militia_040621-1.html
Sadr City's nearly 2 million Shiite residents were singled out for the most brutal treatment under Saddam Hussein, ..

www.wordiq.com/definition/Sadr_City
Sadr City (formerly known as Saddam City and Al Thawra) is a vast low-income neighbourhood in northeastern Baghdad, home to some two million Shi'a Muslims..

Guess no one really knows.