Al-Sadr is sent &#39;final call&#39;
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi issued a &quot;final call&quot; yesterday for Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to agree to a new set of conditions issued by the government and end his rebellion.
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Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi warned yesterday that efforts to resolve the standoff in Fallujah peacefully have entered their &quot;final phase
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A top aide to Iraq&#39;s rebel Shi&#39;ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr called on the Mehdi Army militia Monday to cease fire across Iraq and said Sadr was preparing to announce plans for a major political program.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's radical cleric Moqtada  al-Sadr wants to negotiate arrangements to implement government  demands to end his uprising, his spokesman said on Thursday.
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Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric is to unveil a peace deal that could end the fighting around the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf. Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani is calling for foreign troops to leave Najaf, Iraqi police
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr  is in the "final hours" before a military assault unless he  ends his stand in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq's government  said on Thursday.
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Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric who has been involved in a two-week battle with US forces, has offered to leave a holy shrine in Najaf.
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AGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 19 - Prime Minister Ayad Allawi gave what he described as a final warning on Thursday to the rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, saying the cleric should move quickly to fulfill his vow to disarm and leave the shrine ...
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NAJAF, Iraq Iraq&#39;s most powerful Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, and the rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr met Thursday and forged an agreement aimed at ending the fighting that has engulfed this city for the past three weeks, aides to the
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NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi made a "final call" Thursday to Shiite militants in Najaf to disarm and withdraw from a revered shrine or face a massive onslaught by Iraqi forces to root them out.    The last-ditch warning came shortly after the militants' leader, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, rejected those demands with a vow to seek "martyrdom or victory." Just hours before al-Sadr's defiant statement, fighters presumably from his Mahdi Army militia bombarded a Najaf police station with mortar rounds, killing seven policemen and injuring 31...
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Radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters Thursday to hand control of a revered Najaf shrine to top Shiite religious authorities, hours after U.S. forces bombed militant positions and Iraq's prime minister made a "final call" for the cleric's militia to surrender.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Aug. 31, 2004 - US and Iraqi officials on Tuesday discussed ways to step up aid to Najaf and a war-battered neighborhood in Baghdad after rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to end their uprising.
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Spokesman for radical cleric says Sadr is making plans to join Iraq&#39;s nascent political process, and those plans will become known in coming days.
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WASHINGTON -- What&#39;s clear about radical Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is that he wants power, US officials say. What&#39;s less certain is what he wants to do with that power or how far he&#39;ll go to get it.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most respected Muslim cleric, returned to this beleaguered city yesterday and persuaded rebel leader Moqtada al-Sadr to end a bloody three-week standoff with US and Iraqi government forces.
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AGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 18 - Displaying the brinkmanship that has made him one of the United States&#39; most powerful adversaries in Iraq, the rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr sent last-minute messages of conciliation on Wednesday that appeared to ...
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NAJAF, Iraq : Rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr bowed Thursday to demands laid down by Iraq&#39;s Shiite spiritual leader to end the conflict in Najaf, as 74 people were killed in a mortar attack and shooting in nearby Kufa.