Iraqi conference seeks to end sectarian bloodshed
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Iraq holds a national conference on Saturday designed to halt mounting sectarian violence that has raised fears of civil war and been a major issue behind U.S. President George W. Bush's decision to review his strategy.
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Sunni and Shia leaders in Iraq agree to a four-point plan aimed at cutting sectarian violence in the country.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, yesterday rejected suggestions that an international conference be held to address the violence wracking his country, echoing sentiments expressed by other leading politicians in the war-torn country.
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Iraqi delegates to a conference  choosing a national assembly said Wednesday that radical  Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr had agreed to government demands  to end an uprising in the holy city of Najaf.
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More than 1,100 Iraqis convened for the start of a conference aimed at selecting a national assembly, but the meeting was roiled by a dispute over the use of military force to confront militiamen loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr.
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Delegates come together to choose candidates that will form a delegation to meet Moqtada al-Sadr in Najaf to ask him to stop fighting and join the political process instead during Iraq&#39;s National Conference, August 16, 2004. AP ...
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Officials from Western states and Iraq's neighbours are to attend talks in Baghdad on stabilising the country.
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Iraqi delegates to a conference choosing a national assembly said Wednesday that radical Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr had agreed to government demands to end an uprising in the holy city of Najaf.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Iraqi leaders on Thursday to end their "political inaction" and put aside their differences to rein in sectarian violence that threatens to tear apart the country.
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Iraq's interim prime minister warned Monday that insurgents are trying to foment sectarian civil war as well as derail elections, while thousands of mourners turned out for funerals in the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala a day after car bombs killed 67 people.
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BAGHDAD -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said his government will send envoys to neighboring countries to pave the way for a regional conference on ending Iraq's rampant violence, which yesterday killed more than 40 people.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Aug. 29, 2004 - The US military and Iraqi Shiite and tribal leaders held talks Sunday aimed a reducing tensions in the Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City slum, where 10 people died in fighting a day earlier between Shiite militiamen and US troops.
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Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- An eight-member group from Iraq&#39;s National Conference arrived in Najaf, south of the capital, to talk with Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and try to persuade his followers to end an insurgency in the country&#39;s south, according to a ...
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17 August 2004 -- Eight members of Iraq&#39;s National Conference arrived today in Al-Najaf in a bid to end a violent uprising in the city led by radical Shi&#39;ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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Iraqi leaders hope to flesh out a deal to end sectarian bloodshed in Baghdad when they meet again on Tuesday and conceded a four-point plan, drafted under U.S. pressure, was still short on vital detail.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's interim prime minister warned yesterday that insurgents are trying to foment sectarian civil war as well as derail elections, while thousands of mourners turned out for funerals in the Shi'ite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala a day after car bombs killed 67 people.
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A delegation from Iraq&#39;s national conference has gone to the holy city of Najaf to try to end a bloody Shia uprising. Security concerns delayed the group&#39;s departure and reduced the number of representatives who went.