IRAQ: NAJAF REMAINS TENSE AFTER SADR AGREES TO END UPRISING.

Record ID: 648443

  • Title: IRAQ: NAJAF REMAINS TENSE AFTER SADR AGREES TO END UPRISING.
  • Date: 19th August 2004
  • Summary: (U6) NAJAF, IRAQ (AUGUST 18, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: SUNSET OVER ROAD OUTSIDE NAJAF 0.06 2. GV: POLICE VEHICLE ARRIVING AT HOUSE HIT BY MORTARS 0.09 3. MV/CU: BLOOD ON FLOOR, WOMAN CRYING; CHILD CRYING; BLOOD ON FLOOR SEEN THROUGH SCREEN DOOR (6 SHOTS) 0.39 4. GV/CU/MV: DAMAGE TO BRICKWORK, RUBBLE ON GROUND (3 SHOTS) 0.52 5. GV: POLICE VEHICLES OUTSIDE HOUSE (2 SHOTS) 1.04 6. MV/CU: WOUNDED IN HOSPITAL BEING TREATED BY MEDICS (5 SHOTS) 1.25 7. GV: PEOPLE GATHERED IN HOSPITAL CORRIDOR 1.29 8. TV: NIGHT VIEWS OF EMPTY STREETS (2 SHOTS) 1.38 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd September 2004 13:00
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  • Location: NAJAF, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVADMIGPNHDVK6Q03EXHIEN2TFR9
  • Story Text: Najaf tense after Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada
    al-Sadr agrees to end uprising in the holy city.




    Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr agreed on
    Wednesday (August 18) to end an uprising in the holy city
    of Najaf and leave a shrine from where his militia has
    fought U.S. forces for nearly two weeks, one of his
    spokesmen said.

    "Yes, Sayyed Moqtada has agreed to the demands," Sheikh
    Mahmoud al-Sudani told Reuters, without repeating in full
    the demands to which Sadr had agreed.

    The other demands, conveyed on Tuesday (August 17) by
    delegates meeting in Baghdad to select an interim national
    assembly, were for the radical cleric to disarm his Mehdi
    Army and join the country's political process.

    But the fighting appeared to be continuing.

    One man was wounded when a U.S. mortar attack destroyed
    his house.

    Continued gunfire and explosions echoed across the city
    as the reports came out and U.S. tanks were still on
    streets near the old city.

    Delegates at the assembly read out a letter from Sadr's
    office in Baghdad saying he had agreed to back down and
    leave the Imam Ali Mosque in the southern city.

    Earlier, Iraq's defence minister gave the militiamen
    hours to surrender, warning that troops were preparing for
    a major assault to "teach them a lesson they will never
    forget".

    Hundreds have died in the fighting.



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