Al Sadr rebels hand in weapons
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Followers of Muqtada al Sadr, the radical cleric, began handing their weapons into police stations in the Iraqi capital yesterday and US forces suspended operations against their strongholds in Sadr City.
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BAGHDAD: Members of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr&#39;s militia began handing back their weapons yesterday under a deal with the interim Iraq Government, while two US soldiers were killed in a Baghdad rocket attack.
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A Shi'ite militia was waiting on Monday  for the order from its leader Moqtada al-Sadr to start turning  over its weapons to Iraqi police, a militia source said.
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A rebel Shi'ite Muslim militia led by  Moqtada al-Sadr pledged on Thursday to disarm in what could be  a major advance for U.S.-Iraqi efforts to calm violence in Iraq  ahead of elections due in January.
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Shi&#39;ite rebels have started handing in weapons as part of a five-day disarmament that hopes to defuse recurring violence in Baghdad.
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US vehicles take up positions around edge of Iraqi capital's Sadr City district.
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The rebel cleric&#39;s followers began handing in weapons Monday, but some are bent on continuing to fight American forces in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, October 08 (Online): An aide to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr offered on Thursday to hand over medium and heavy weapons and cooperate with Iraqi security forces in the capital if the government stops pursuing members of the Shia militia and releases
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Followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr trickled in to police stations in Baghdad's Sadr City district to hand in weapons Monday under a deal seen as a key step toward ending weeks of fighting with U.S. and Iraqi forces in the Shiite militant stronghold.
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Only a small number of followers of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr handed over their weapons today at the start of a ceasefire aimed at ending weeks of fighting between US troops and insurgents in the Baghdad&#39;s impoverished Sadr City neighbourhood.
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Militiamen loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr will begin handing over weapons to Iraqi police next week in a major step toward ending weeks of fighting with American soldiers and restoring peace in Baghdad's Sadr City district, a senior aide to the radical cleric said Saturday.
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Followers of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr trickled in to police stations in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City district to hand in weapons today under a deal seen as a key step toward ending weeks of fighting with US and Iraqi forces in the Shiite militant stronghold.
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BAGHDAD  - Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr&#39;s militia handed in hundreds of weapons in Baghdad, as the US military focused its fire on Iraq&#39;s rebel-held Sunni Muslim bastion of Fallujah.
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Iraqi Shia militiamen in the Sadr City area of Baghdad are due to start handing in heavy weapons on Monday, under a deal with the government.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq A senior aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (mook-TAH&#39;-duh ehl SAH&#39;-dur) says militiamen loyal to him will begin handing over weapons to Iraqi police next week.
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NAJAF, Iraq - A rebel cleric's militiamen kept their guns outside a holy site Friday after issuing a surprise offer to give up control of the Imam Ali Shrine to Shiite Muslim religious leaders, but negotiators wrangled into the night over getting the militants out of the compound.    The removal of weapons and pledge to hand over keys to religious authorities was seen as a big step toward a resolution of the two-week faceoff in Najaf that has killed dozens of people and wounded hundreds in fighting between Muqtada al-Sadr's militia and a joint U.S.-Iraq force...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced plans Monday to extend a cash-for-weapons program for Shiite fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City to cities nationwide in an attempt to disarm the country.    The announcement came as fresh violence erupted in Baghdad and Mosul...