Missing journo on Sadr mission
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AN Italian journalist missing in Iraq was set on reaching the holy city of Najaf and obtaining a personal interview with radical Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr, a colleague was quoted as saying today.
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The two French hostages seized by Islamic militants in Iraq are missing journalists Christian Chesnot of Radio France Internationale, and Georges Malbrunot, of Paris daily Le Figaro, the Arabic satellite news channel Al-Jazeera reported.
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BAGHDAD -- A militant group said it has kidnapped a missing Western journalist with Boston-area ties and would kill him if US forces did not leave the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf within 48 hours, Al-Jazeera reported yesterday.
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U.S. forces in Iraq said Friday they are not holding a missing French reporter last seen leaving her Baghdad hotel two days ago, raising concern that she was kidnapped.
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A Briton was tonight missing with two American colleagues after they were seized by gunmen from their house in Baghdad. The three were hauled away by militants without a shot
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The French newspaper whose reporter in Baghdad has been missing since last week said Monday it seemed increasingly likely that she was abducted.
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U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ayad Allawi was trailing a Shiite ticket with ties to Iran in Iraq's historic election, according to partial returns released Friday. One U.S. soldier was killed and seven wounded in the north, and gunmen seized an Italian journalist in Baghdad.
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Sadr City slum after car bombs earlier killed at least 26 people in two Iraqi cities. immediate word on casualties and the US military said it had no information on the fighting.
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Kidnapped US journalist Micah Garen has been released Sunday to government officials in the southern city of Nasiriyah. Reports say the release came four days after radical Shiite leader Moqtada Al-Sadr started negotiations with the kidnappers.
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Pvt. Jeremiah Jensen, on leave from Iraq, had his car stolen at gunpoint just days before Christmas. Pfc. Robert Ruiz was injured by a booby trap in Iraq a few days after Christmas last year.
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FALLUJAH: US and Iraqi troops have encircled the rebel city of Fallujah in the hunt for Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi but locals are adamant Iraq&#39;s most wanted man is not there.
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BAGHDAD  -- A senior aide to radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr was assassinated on the road between the holy city of Najaf and Baghdad, an official from the movement said Wednesday.
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MARK COLVIN: To Iraq where the Shi&#39;ite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani is on his way back to the holy city of Najaf, with around ten thousand followers joining his convoy from Basra in Iraq&#39;s south.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Rebel Shi'ite fighters appeared  still to be in control of the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi city  of Najaf, but the whereabouts of their leader, the fiery cleric  Moqtada al-Sadr, were unknown on Saturday.
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr  may have escaped the U.S.-led military siege of the Imam Ali  Mosque in Najaf, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Friday.
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is still in Iraq and has not left for Iran, several of his aides said on Wednesday, after American officials suggested he may have departed to avoid an offensive against militants.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Heavy clashes broke out in Najaf leaving dead and wounded a day after an Iraqi delegation failed to meet Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on a mission aimed at ending an uprising by the cleric&#39;s militia, Reuters said.