Najaf Siege Might Not End Rebel Cleric&#39;s Challenge
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The United States and its Iraqi allies will have to do more than push Moqtada al-Sadr out of a mosque to meet the challenge posed by his movement, according to his followers.
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Fighting in Najaf, a holy city for Shi&#39;ite Muslims in Iraq, is at crisis point. Militiamen led by anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr are holed up in the golden-domed Imam Ali mosque in a standoff against Iraq&#39;s interim government and American troops.
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23 August 2004 -- Fighting continued today in the Iraqi city of Al-Najaf between US and Iraqi government forces and supporters of radical Shi&#39;ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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Conflicting reports have emerged over the situation in the Iraqi city of Najaf. How can peace be forged in the city?
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Peace has failed to bring reconciliation in Najaf, a city considered significant to Shi&#39;ite Muslims and where self-declared holy warriors battled US forces last month.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fighters loyal to Iraqi cleric  Moqtada al-Sadr clashed with U.S. troops in Najaf on Saturday  after talks with religious authorities to end a siege at the  city's holiest shrine ran into difficulties.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fears of heavier fighting in Najaf  grew on Wednesday after an Iraqi peace delegation failed to  defuse a confrontation between U.S. troops and militiamen holed  up in a revered shrine in the city.
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U.S. troops' pinpoint fire and munitions restrictions have ensured that Najaf's Imam Ali shrine remains all but unscathed. But the core of the city around it, dear to millions of Shiite Muslims, has been mauled by combat.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's radical cleric Moqtada  al-Sadr refused on Tuesday to meet a delegation of Iraqi  political and religious leaders who want him to call off his  uprising in the holy city of Najaf and other areas.
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr  may have escaped the U.S.-led military siege of the Imam Ali  Mosque in Najaf, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Friday.
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BAGHDAD -- The fight with renegade Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is not over and the US military must retake his stronghold in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, a top US commander said yesterday.
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More fighting has been reported in the Iraqi city of Najaf, despite an agreement by radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end clashes between his supporters and US-led forces.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fighters loyal to Iraqi cleric  Moqtada al-Sadr retained their grip on the Imam Ali shrine in  Najaf on Saturday, dampening hopes that talks with religious  authorities would quickly end a two-week siege.
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Rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on his fighters to lay down arms and leave the holy city of Najaf. It follows a deal brokered by Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric that ended weeks of violence.
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Sporadic gunfire, explosions and a US bombing raid shook the city of Najaf today as militants retained control of a revered shrine, raising fears that a plan to end the crisis could collapse amid bickering between Shiite leaders.
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BAGHDAD -- After more than a week of fighting between the Mahdi Army and the combined US and Iraqi forces in Najaf, Baghdad's Sadr City, and a half-dozen other cities, analysts say neither interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi nor radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr had any good options left other than to talk.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The deadly showdown between U.S. troops and Iraqi militants in Najaf dominated Iraq's national conference Monday, with tribal and religious leaders deciding to send 60 delegates to the holy city to persuade a radical Shiite cleric to call off his fighters...