Powell Praises Najaf Peace Agreement
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Secretary of State Colin Powell praised the peace deal that ended fighting in Iraq&#39;s holy city, Najaf, and said Friday that the presence of US forces in the area helped make it possible.
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Iraq&#39;s interim government Friday cautiously welcomed the possibility of an agreement with rebellious Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr to disband the cleric&#39;s militia.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters to lay down their arms and leave the area as thousands of Iraqis thronged the revered Imam Ali shrine Friday after he and the Iraqi government agreed to a peace proposal by Iraq's top Shiite cleric to end three weeks of fighting in Najaf.    Al-Sadr issued the order in a statement to his Mahdi Army militia from his office in Najaf that also was broadcast through loudspeakers at the shrine, which militants have used as a stronghold and refuge throughout their standoff with a combined U.S.-Iraqi force...
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Rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will  remain a free man after he agreed a peace deal to end an  uprising in the holy city of Najaf, Minister of State Kasim  Daoud told a news conference early Friday.
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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...
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Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday and swiftly 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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Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday and swiftly won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting between his militia and U.S.-Iraqi forces.
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must make assurances that Sadr&#39;s followers are not &quot;persecuted&quot; and his aides are freed from US detention. Smeism said the deal would become effective only once the government agreed.
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It has been a week since a peace deal was struck in the Iraqi city of Najaf, bringing an end to three weeks of fighting and opening the predominantly Shia city up to millions of dollars in reconstruction aid.
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(CBS/AP) Iraq&#39;s interim government and rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have both agreed to a peace deal presented by top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani to end three weeks of fighting in the holy city of Najaf.
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The radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was reported last night to have accepted a peace deal that could end the violent two-week uprising in Najaf and see his militia leave the city&#39;s Imam Ali Shrine.
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The Bush administration reacted cautiously Wednesday to reports that the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had accept a peace plan to end fighting in Najaf.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose militia has been fighting American and Iraqi forces for almost two weeks in Najaf, agreed Wednesday to a peace plan proposed by an Iraqi national ...
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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  - Shi'ite fighters left the Imam Ali  Mosque in Najaf Friday and began turning in their weapons,  after tens of thousands of pilgrims celebrated a peace  agreement that ended a bloody rebellion.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell gave understated praise Thursday for preparations the United Nations is making to support elections in Iraq
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The Iraqi government and US army expressed cautious optimism on Sunday about radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr&#39;s deal to disarm his militia in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City.