Iraqi Peace Mission Snubbed by Sadr
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on  Tuesday refused to meet an Iraqi peace delegation because of  "American aggression" as U.S. troops pounded militia positions  in Najaf near the country's holiest Islamic sites.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq&#39;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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The head of Iraq's most powerful Shiite militia refuses to hold direct talks with U.S. envoys despite apparent willingness for dialogue by Washington, a spokesman for radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Wednesday.
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Talks to end bitter fighting between US forces and Shiite militants in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City have stalled, with the government refusing
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The United States rejected a  Saudi plan for an all-Muslim force to protect U.N. election  staff in Iraq because the force would not have been under U.S.  command, New York daily Newsday reported Monday.
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Iraq's leading Sunni Muslim clerics said Wednesday the country's landmark elections lacked legitimacy because large numbers of Sunnis did not participate in the balloting, which the religious leaders had asked them to boycott.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Talks to end fighting between U.S. forces and Shiite militants in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City have stalled, with the government refusing militant demands for American troops to keep out of the troubled district, officials said Wednesday...
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Iraq&#39;s interim Iraqi Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, has dismissed warnings from the United Nations secretary-general about the expected United States-led assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
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(Baghdad, Iraq -AP, Nov. 27, 2004 1:15 PM) _ Shiite Muslim religious leaders in Iraq are rejecting any delay in holding elections.
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Australia has turned down a diplomatic plea for a contribution to a military force to protect United Nations (UN) personnel in Iraq.
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The Iraqi government will not tolerate U.S.-backed neighborhood patrols turning into a "third force" alongside the army and the police, Defense Minister General Abdel Qader Jassim said on Saturday.
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Iraq's president rejects a high-level US report calling for changes in American strategy in Iraq.
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan  al-Bashir has turned down a proposed U.N. role in the peace  mission in Darfur, opposed a large increase of troops and  asserted that the crisis there has been exaggerated.
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The Lebanese parliamentary speaker, a prominent Shiite who has been negotiating on behalf of Hezbollah, rejected the U.S.-French draft U.N. cease-fire resolution on Sunday because it did not include the government's plan for ending the fighting.
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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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Syria on Thursday rejected Iraqi accusations that it and Iran were supporting al-Qaida-linked insurgents in Iraq. Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan said Wednesday that Iranian and Syrian intelligence agents
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NAJAF, Iraq - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr accepted a peace plan Wednesday for Najaf that would disarm his militiamen and remove them from a holy shrine where they are hiding out, according to a spokesman. However, Al-Sadr wanted to negotiate how the deal would be implemented...