Chief negotiator for Fallujah released
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US and Iraqi authorities yesterday released the chief negotiator for Fallujah after three days of captivity in a failed bid to restart talks that could avoid a military assault on the terrorist hotbed west of Baghdad.
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Chief negotiator for the town of Fallujah, Sheik Khaled al-Jumeili talks on a phone after being released from US custody on the orders of Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, in Fallujah, Iraq, Monday, Oct 18, 2004.
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BAGHDAD -- For the first time since a US-led offensive devastated Fallujah, a Red Cross team entered the city and met with Iraqi technicians and engineers to discuss sewage and water treatment needs, a group spokesman said yesterday.
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ABUJA, Nigeria - Security forces released the head of Nigeria&#39;s main labor organization on Sunday after a brief detention, but a nationwide strike will go ahead as planned, a spokesman for the labor group said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. marines arrested the chief  negotiator for Falluja along with the rebel-held city's police  chief on Friday, police in Falluja said.
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Military operations to retake the insurgent-held Iraqi city of Fallujah are progressing &quot;ahead of schedule,&quot; a top US Marine commander there said today.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A delegation from the insurgent stronghold Fallujah suspended peace talks with the government Thursday because of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's "impossible" demand to hand over terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the city spokesman said.    Allawi warned Wednesday that Fallujah must surrender al-Zarqawi and other foreign fighters or face military attack...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The top Fallujah negotiator in peace talks with the government dashed hopes of resuming talks soon despite his release Monday by U.S. and Iraqi authorities, saying negotiations remain suspended...
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A senior leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the West Bank was released after two years of detention in an Israeli jail, Palestinian witnesses said Thursday.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday and won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting between his militia and US-Iraqi forces.
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WASHINGTON -- The former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah has calmed somewhat, with signs of commerce reappearing on the streets and no shots fired over the past 10 days at US or Iraqi forces, the Marine general overseeing US troops in the city said yesterday.
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A man argues with a US and Iraqi soldiers as he waits to be allowed to enter Fallujah on the city limits Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004 as first of the town&#39;s 300,000 residents who fled last month&#39;s US lead offensive started returning.
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BAGHDAD: The US military freed a top aide to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr on Thursday in a gesture that could help the interim governmentâs efforts to calm rebel-held strongholds before elections in January.
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A militant group said Thursday it had released a Canadian hostage, claiming that her company had met its demand to withdraw from Iraq.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - The chief negotiator for Falluja  said after his release by U.S. forces on Monday that the  rebel-held city was thirsty for peace despite the suspension of  talks with Iraq's interim government.
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American and Iraqi military commanders said yesterday that troops had found at least one house in Fallujah that appeared to be the base of some of the hostage-takers
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi officials announced Thursday the capture of a key aide to Jordanian terrorist suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and said soldiers had discovered what they called a chemical bomb factory in Fallujah.