Al Sadr rebels hand in weapons
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Followers of Muqtada al Sadr, the radical cleric, began handing their weapons into police stations in the Iraqi capital yesterday and US forces suspended operations against their strongholds in Sadr City.
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FIGHTERS loyal to firebrand Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have been allowed to keep weapons such as AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenade launchers as part of secret provisions in a deal that ended the 22-day siege of the holy city of Najaf.
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The battered pick-up truck was normally used for ferrying vegetables to market. But in Sadr City yesterday it arrived to collect a very different load - mortar shells, grenade launchers and machine-gun rounds.
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The cleric's followers began handing in weapons Monday, but some plan to continue fighting US forces in Baghdad.
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The Iraqi government has given Shi&#39;ite militiamen five days to hand in weapons under a weekend peace agreement. National Security Adviser Kassim Daoud said the Iraqi interim government will commit more than
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Members of a militia group in Baghdad&#39;s impoverished area of Sadr City have agreed to give up their fight against Iraqi and coalition forces and lay down their weapons.
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A Shi'ite militia was waiting on Monday  for the order from its leader Moqtada al-Sadr to start turning  over its weapons to Iraqi police, a militia source said.
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Fighters loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday removed weapons from the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf in a bid aimed at ending the 2-week-old standoff centered on the holy site.
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BAGHDAD , Oct 11 (MASNET &amp; News Agencies) - Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr&#39;s militia began slowly turning in weapons under a deal with the Iraqi government aimed at bringing a halt to months of deadly fighting in a Baghdad slum.
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Militiamen loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr will begin handing over weapons to Iraqi police next week in a major step toward ending weeks of fighting with American soldiers and restoring peace in Baghdad's Sadr City district, a senior aide to the radical cleric said Saturday.
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BAGHDAD - A top aide to Iraqi rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr says militias loyal to the religious leader will turn in their weapons in exchange for assurances they won&#39;t be persecuted.
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TURBO, Colombia : Some 450 Colombian paramilitaries handed over weapons, the first of at least 3,000 right-wing fighters due to surrender their arms as an initial gesture in a peace deal.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Militiamen loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday removed weapons from the revered Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf in a step aimed at ending the 2-week-old uprising centered on the holy site.    The move came as al-Sadr's followers were working out the handing of control over the shrine to Iraq's highest Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani...
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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 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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BAGHDAD Militiamen loyal to the rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr surrendered hundreds of weapons Monday, in what appeared to be an encouraging first step in a deal with the Iraqi government and the American military to end months of fighting in the eastern
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NAJAF - Rebel cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr yesterday ordered his fighters to lay down their weapons and leave the Shi&#39;ite holy city of Najaf and neighbouring Kufa, effectively ending three weeks of fighting between his militia and US and Iraqi government forces
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SHIITE militiamen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr offered today to surrender heavy and medium weapons in return for the release of prisoners and a role in Iraq&#39;s political process, a spokesman for Sadr said.