Iraq Militants Trade Guns For Cash
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Shiite fighters in tracksuits and sneakers unloaded cars full of machine guns, mortars and land mines Monday as a five-day disarmament program kicked off in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City district - a sign of progress in the center of Shiite resistance in Iraq
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 20, 2004 - A militant group posted a video on the Internet purporting to show militants sawing off the heads of three Iraqi members of a Kurdish party for cooperating with US forces.
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A radical Shiite militia agreed on Saturday to hand in weapons and suspend attacks against US and Iraqi forces, as the government has tried to use carrots and sticks to curb a mounting insurgency throughout the country.
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Iraqi insurgents are in intense negotiations with the country's interim government to hand over control of the city to Iraqi troops, in hopes of averting a bloody military battle for the city of 300,000.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced plans yesterday to extend a cash-for-weapons program for Shi'ite fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City to cities nationwide in an attempt to disarm the country.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced plans Monday to extend a cash-for-weapons program for Shiite fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City to cities nationwide in an attempt to disarm the country.    In Fallujah, the focal point of the Sunni rebellion, hopes that peace talks could resume there quickly were dashed when the city's chief negotiator, Sheik Khaled al-Jumeili, ruled out restarting talks soon despite his release Monday from U.S...
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NAJAF, Iraq - A rebel cleric's militiamen kept their guns outside a holy site Friday after issuing a surprise offer to give up control of the Imam Ali Shrine to Shiite Muslim religious leaders, but negotiators wrangled into the night over getting the militants out of the compound.    The removal of weapons and pledge to hand over keys to religious authorities was seen as a big step toward a resolution of the two-week faceoff in Najaf that has killed dozens of people and wounded hundreds in fighting between Muqtada al-Sadr's militia and a joint U.S.-Iraq force...
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Four British soldiers admitted involvement Monday in a plot to smuggle pistols out of Iraq to sell them for cash to other British troops.
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The Iraq insurgency has become financially self-sustaining, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, corrupt charities and other crimes, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced plans Monday to extend a cash-for-weapons program for Shiite fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City to cities nationwide in an attempt to disarm the country. U.S...
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BAGHDAD -- A convergence of organized crime and political violence that targets Iraqis for cash is also fueling the high-profile seizures of foreigners like Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley, the Americans beheaded by militants this week, US officials say.
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BAGHDAD -- Ayad Allawi, Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister announced plans yesterday to extend a cash-for-weapons program for Shiite fighters in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City to cities countrywide in an attempt to disarm the country.
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Shi&#39;ite militia fighters backing the radical Iraqi cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, are handing in weapons at the start of a deal with the Iraqi interim Government to end months of violence.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 17 - A government plan to entice Iraq&#39;s biggest Shiite militia to turn in its weapons in return for cash here has brought in enough arms in its first week that Iraqi officials extended
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A TIME investigation reveals how Iraqi militants are devising innovative ways to make the war more deadly for U.S. troops
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr trickled in to police stations in Baghdad's Sadr City district to hand in weapons Monday under a deal with the government that is seen as a key step toward ending weeks of fighting with U.S. and Iraqi forces in the Shiite militant stronghold...
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A militia member loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr delivers sacks of mortar rounds to Iraqi security forces in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq Monday, Oct. 11, 2004.