Al-Sistani Wants US-Led Forces to Leave Najaf
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq&#39;s foremost Shiite cleric, wants US-led military forces to leave Najaf and nearby Kufa as a condition for establishing peace with cleric Moqtada al
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Moktada al-Sadr suggested he would vacate a shrine in Najaf, disband the Mahdi Army and transform it into a political party.
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The senior Shiite cleric&#39;s spokesman says that Muqtada al-Sadr&#39;s army will abandon the Imam Ali shrine today. BY HANNAH ALLAM.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - An Iraqi peace delegation has urged a radical Shi&#39;ite cleric to call off his uprising in the city of Najaf, where US troops have been pounding militia positions near the country&#39;s holiest Islamic sites.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr accepted a peace plan Wednesday calling for his militiamen to disarm and leave their hideout in a revered Shiite shrine, raising hopes of ending a battle that has threatened to undermine Iraq's fledgling interim government.    But gunfire and explosions crackled across Najaf after the deal was announced and there was no indication of whether there could be a quick end to two weeks of fighting between al-Sadr's forces and U.S...
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NAJAF, Iraq - With U.S. forces bombing militant positions and gunbattles raging, radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to hand control of a revered Najaf shrine to top Shiite religious authorities but refused to disband his militia...
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Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has accepted a peace plan drafted by the Iraqi National Conference, which would include laying down arms and withdrawing his militia from a holy shrine in the city of Najaf, a delegate told the conference Wednesday.
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Moktada al-Sadr suggested he would vacate the shrine in Najaf, disband the Mahdi Army and transform it into a political party.
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Iraq&#39;s most influential Shi&#39;ite cleric headed for the battered city of Najaf on Thursday to try to persuade rebels holed up inside a sacred shrine to leave and end a three-week uprising that has killed hundreds.
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A spokesman for leading Shia authority Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani tells reporters outside the ailing cleric&#39;s Najaf home that a peaceful resolution to the standoff that has marred the city is within reach.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Delegates at Iraq's National Conference called Monday for radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to abandon his uprising against U.S. and Iraqi troops and pull his fighters out of a holy shrine in Najaf...
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Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani urged his supporters converging on Najaf on Thursday not to enter the battered holy city until he arrived, a senior aide said.
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Iraq&#39;s leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, will present a three-point plan to end fighting in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf when he arrives there today, Agence France-Presse reported.
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A firebrand Iraqi Islamic cleric is reported to have agreed to withdraw his armed militia from around the city of Najaf. The news came as a conference chose a national council to oversee the workings of the Iraqi interim government.
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They had marched to Najaf to support a mission by Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;a cleric to end the fighting consuming the holy city. But at least 15 of Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani&#39;s supporters
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BASRA, Iraq  - Scores of Shi'ite militiamen took  to the streets of the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Tuesday,  brandishing assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades and  demanding U.S.-led forces pull out of Najaf.
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As the standoff in Najaf continues between Iraqi, US and coalition troops and forces under the command of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq&#39;s top Shiite