Iraqi government, al-Sadr OK peace deal
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Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday and swiftly won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end three weeks of fighting between his ...
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TONY EASTLEY: Fighters loyal to Iraqi Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr have begun handing over their weapons, in a deal designed to end fighting between the militiamen and US-led forces in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City.
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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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must make assurances that Sadr&#39;s followers are not &quot;persecuted&quot; and his aides are freed from US detention. Smeism said the deal would become effective only once the government agreed.
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Iraqi police say an agreement on ending the uprising in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf has been reached.
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Iraq's most revered Shi'ite leader persuaded a rebel cleric Thursday to accept a deal ending a three-week uprising in Najaf, after returning to the holy city amid bloody clashes that killed at least 74 people.
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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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Al-Sadr has backed off other commitments in the past, but a truce would be a major victory for interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi by removing a serious insurgency and potentially bringing many of the Shiite ...
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NAJAF, Iraq - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr accepted a peace plan Wednesday to end fighting in Najaf that would disarm his militiamen and remove them from a holy shrine where they are hiding out, according to an al-Sadr spokesman. However, al-Sadr wanted to negotiate how the deal would be implemented...
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NAJAF, Iraq - Rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr agreed Thursday to a peace deal presented by top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani to end three weeks of fighting in the holy city of Najaf, according to a top aide to al-Sistani.    Al-Sistani, the most influential cleric among Iraq's Shiite majority, reached the deal in direct talks with al-Sadr in the evening, only hours after making a dramatic return to Najaf...
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Iraq&#39;s most revered Shiite religious authority has agreed Thursday a &quot;very positive&quot; deal with rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to end a three-week uprising in the holy city of Najaf, as tensions were inflamed by attacks on Shiite marchers that killed at
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The radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was reported last night to have accepted a peace deal that could end the violent two-week uprising in Najaf and see his militia leave the city&#39;s Imam Ali Shrine.
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A Shi'ite militia led by Moqtada  al-Sadr agreed on Saturday to disarm under a deal that could  pacify a Baghdad flashpoint and remove one obstacle to Iraq's  plan to hold nationwide elections in January.
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Followers of renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have agreed to a cease-fire with Iraq's interim government aimed at ending weeks of fighting in the vast Baghdad slum of Sadr City, a mediator said Wednesday. However, key members of the cleric's movement insisted terms of the deal had not been finalized.
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The Iraqi government and US army expressed cautious optimism on Sunday about radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr&#39;s deal to disarm his militia in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City.
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TONY JONES: Well, in Iraq, both Washington and the interim government are heralding an agreement that could end months of fighting in Baghdad&#39;s restive Shia suburb of Sadr City.
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Fighters loyal to radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr reach a deal to end weeks of fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City.