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Iraqi policemen check at least 25
charred and bloated bodies discovered in the basement of Shiite militia leader
Moqtada Sadr's religious court in the holy city of
Najaf.
NAJAF, Iraq - The crash of explosions and crackle of gunfire that have torn through Najaf for weeks gave way Saturday to the clangs of shovels clearing the destruction and the wail of police sirens announcing the return of government control to the devastated holy city.
The first independent report into the sordid prisoner-abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib is in, and it's sure to disappoint those Bush-bashers who hoped it would deliver Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's head on a silver platter.
MANILA, Philippines - Riot police used water cannons Friday to disperse protesters demanding that the Philippines lift its ban on allowing its citizens to go to war-ravaged Iraq for jobs.
CAIRO, Egypt - Islamic militants released a brief tape showing two French journalists kidnapped recently in Iraq and said they were holding the men to protest a French law banning headscarves in schools, according to footage aired Saturday by an Arab TV station.
BAQUBA, Iraq (AFP) - Six Iraqi policemen were shot dead and 11 people wounded when gunmen travelling in two minibuses opened fire on a checkpoint in the restive city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, medics said.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Police found the bodies of a slain Turkish truck driver and an Iraqi man on a highway in northern Iraq, a Turkish diplomat said Saturday.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rebels blew up a pipeline inside an oilfield in southern Iraq in the latest in a series of attacks on the country's oil infrastructure that has cut exports from the key southern oil fields in half, officials said Saturday.
BAGHDAD — Having returned from his sick bed to broker a peace deal freeing Najaf's sacred mosque of rebel fighters, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani appears to have grown into a larger-than-life figure, the one man who could end the deadly conflict between an upstart cleric and the Iraqi government and its U.S. backers.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shiite militants and U.S. forces battled Saturday in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy eastern Baghdad neighborhood, marking a fresh round of violence in the capital. Five people died and dozens were wounded, officials said.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rebels blew up a pipeline inside an oilfield in southern Iraq in the latest in a series of attacks on the country's oil infrastructure that has cut exports from the key southern oil fields in half, officials said Saturday.
WASHINGTON - President Bush said for the first time on Thursday he made a "miscalculation of what the conditions would be" after U.S. troops went to Iraq, The New York Times reported. The insurgency, he maintained, was the unintended result of a "swift victory" that led to Iraqi troops disappearing into the cities and mounting a rebellion.
DOHA (AFP) - US-backed Iraqi police forces raided the Baghdad office of the Iraqi National Congress of disgraced Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi and expelled party members, an INC official said.
ROME - Pope John Paul II condemned the reported killing of an Italian hostage, and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday vowed Italian troops would not leave Iraq (news - web sites), denouncing the slaying as an act that brings "us back to the dark ages of barbarity."
NAJAF, Iraq - Iraqi police discovered about 10 bodies in a maverick religious court run by rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's followers here Friday and said they were victims of the court's summary brand of justice.
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Shi'ite fighters left the holiest shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf Friday and began turning in their weapons, after tens of thousands of pilgrims celebrated a peace agreement that ended a bloody rebellion.
Sunday, August 29, 2004, 11:02 PM
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