Al-Sadr Ignores Truce Accord, AFP Says, Citing Iraqi Government
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Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Moqtada al-Sadr, the Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric leading an insurgency in Najaf, has failed to act on promises to disarm his militia in the city, Agence France- Presse reported, citing the Interior Ministry.
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The decision was made today after the rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr refused to meet with its first peace team on Tuesday.
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Residents of the Sadr City slum in western Baghdad on Tuesday said they hoped an unofficial truce between a Shiite Muslim militia and US and Iraqi government
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Description: Efforts are under way to arrange a ceasefire in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City, where militiamen loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been battling US forces.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's National Conference refused Wednesday to send a second delegation to the holy city of Najaf to negotiate an end to fighting between U.S. troops and loyalists of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a day after he rebuffed their demand for a meeting...
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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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Peace talks between the Iraqi government and the office of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadron his army&#39;s weapons were facing troubles, the Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV channel reported Monday.
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AJAF, Iraq, Aug. 17 - The rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr refused to meet here on Tuesday with a peace delegation that traveled from a national political conference in Baghdad, and fighting between American forces and ...
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The Bush administration reacted suspiciously Wednesday to reports that the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had accepted a peace plan to end fighting in Najaf.
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Corrects ninth paragraph to show one rebel group, not two,   signed a peace deal with the government in May.
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BAGHDAD, August 27  - The hastily reached peace deal to defuse the crisis in Najaf is in fact a &quot;doomed truce&quot; as it left some very serious loose ends pertaining to the crisis and the situation in Iraq in general, analysts and observers
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's radical cleric Moqtada  al-Sadr refused on Tuesday to meet a delegation of Iraqi  political and religious leaders seeking to end a rebellion in  the holy city of Najaf and other parts of the country.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraq&#39;s radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr refused to meet a delegation of Iraqi political and religious leaders in the holy city of Najaf, CNN reported.
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Anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his feared Mehdi Army on Thursday to maintain its six-month ceasefire as members of the militia clashed with U.S. and Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad.
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NAJAF, IRAQ - Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr faces an Iraqi offensive on his Najaf stronghold within hours, despite his apparent agreement to lay down arms, Iraqi cabinet officials said Thursday.
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BAGHDAD -- A week after reaching a truce with Moqtada al-Sadr's rebel militia, a move officials hailed as a breakthrough that would let them bolster security forces and restart reconstruction projects, the interim Iraqi government faces a deepening crisis of confidence among the country's Shi'ite Muslim majority.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq'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.