Basra clashes with Shia cult
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Clashes break out in the southern Iraqi city of Basra between police and members of a Shia cult, officials say.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. marines and Shi'ite militiamen  fought fierce battles around a shrine in the Iraqi city of  Najaf Monday in some of the heaviest fighting since the  20-day-old rebellion erupted.
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A bomb attack near Muslim Shiites commemorating Ashura, one of the group's holiest events in Iraq kills two people a day after fighting between security forces and members of a violent Shiite messianic cult killed 56 people and raised religious tensions as millions gather to mark the day.
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By Abdul Hussein Al-Obeidi, Associated Press, 8/21/2004 14:03. NAJAF, Iraq  Militants loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr kept their hold on a revered shrine, and clashes flared in Najaf on Saturday
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BASRA, Iraq  - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday in which at least 14 people were killed and scores wounded, officials said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. troops and Shi'ite rebels  fought fierce battles in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on  Monday, with multiple explosions and gunfire echoing around a  sacred shrine held by followers of a radical cleric.
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Reporters have to leave the holy city of Najaf where Shia militants have clashed with US and Iraqi troops.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British forces have clashed with fighters loyal to radical Shi&#39;ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Basra for a second day, trading gunfire in the streets for about 90 minutes, witnesses say.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shia militants and US forces battled in the Sadr City slums yesterday, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy neighborhood in the capital in new violence that killed at least five Iraqis and wounded dozens of others.
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British troops took control of the offices of Muqtada al-Sadr in the southern city of Basra on Friday after clashing with militants loyal to the rebel cleric, witnesses said.
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In west Baghdad&#39;s Omar al-Khattab mosque, a Sunni preacher assails his Shia compatriots for failing to come to the aid of the besieged city of Falluja.
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NAJAF/MOSUL, AUGUST 22: US helicopter gunships pounded Shiâite militias in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday as tanks rumbled to within 800 metres of a holy shrine at the centre of a near three-week insurgency.
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Sunni Muslims expressed outrage Saturday over an assault by Iraqi National Guard troops, backed by US soldiers, on their most revered mosque in Baghdad.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fierce fighting broke out in the  holy Iraqi city of Najaf Monday, with numerous explosions and  gunfire echoing around a sacred shrine held by followers of a  radical Shi'ite cleric, Reuters witnesses said.
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Fighting in Najaf, a holy city for Shi&#39;ite Muslims in Iraq, is at crisis point. Militiamen led by anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr are holed up in the golden-domed Imam Ali mosque in a standoff against Iraq&#39;s interim government and American troops.
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Iraq's Shiite prime minister said Friday hard-line Sunni clerics outside Iraq share the blame for this week's bloodshed at a Shiite religious festival in Karbala because they issued religious decrees terming Shiites heretics.
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BAGHDAD, June 16 -- Another Sunni mosque was destroyed in the southern port city of Basra on Saturday, as a leading Shiite cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, called for his followers to march north to the Sunni town of Samarra next month to visit a revered Shiite shrine that was attacked Wednesday.