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US forces reach ceasefire with militia in Najaf
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-05-28 10:30
Followers of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr chant in front of Najaf's Imam Ali shrine May 27, 2004. U.S.
forces agreed to a truce offered by al-Sadr Thursday, suspending their
attacks and allowing Sadr's Mehdi Army fighters to pull out of the city.
[Reuters] |
An Iraqi man waves the national flag as he
rides in a vehicle with a poster of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr plastered
on a window in the holy Shiite Muslim city of Najaf. [AFP] |
Fighters of the 'Mehdi army militia' hold
posters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr as they chant slogans in the
holy Shiite Muslim city of Najaf, south of Baghdad.
[AFP] |
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