IRAQ: CLEARING UP BEGINS IN NAJAF AFTER THREE WEEKS OF FIGHTING

Record ID: 376167

  • Title: IRAQ: CLEARING UP BEGINS IN NAJAF AFTER THREE WEEKS OF FIGHTING
  • Date: 28th August 2004
  • Summary: NAJAF. IRAQ (AUGUST 28, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF STREETS/ DEBRIS 0.06 2. VARIOUS OF IMAM ALI MOSQUE AT END OF STREET 0.23 3. WIDE OF DEBRIS AROUND MOSQUE/ BURNED OUT CAR 0.31 4. WIDE OF MOSQUE WITH PILE OF DEBRIS IN FRONT 0.38 5. CLOSE OF DAMAGED MOSAIC DECORATION ON MOSQUE 0.45 6. WIDE OF MOSQUE CO
  • Embargoed: 12th September 2004 13:00
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  • Location: NAJAF, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVASD2O2G9OGHWDF288NR1WKAXZ
  • Story Text: Clean-up begins in Najaf.




    The big clean-up operation is underway in the Iraqi
    city of Najaf after three weeks of fighting.

    Residents were out on the streets on Saturday (August
    28) clearing away rubble and debris.

    The area around the Imam Ali mosque, Iraq's holiest
    Shi'ite site, was calm. On Friday (August 27) religious
    authorities locked the doors of the shrine after the Mehdi
    Army militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr left. The
    fighters had defied U.S. military firepower and the interim
    Iraqi government for three weeks.

    Iraq's most revered cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali
    al-Sistani, made a dramatic return to Najaf on Thursday and
    persuaded Sadr to accept a peace deal to halt the fighting.



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