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Main weekly Muslim prayers in the holy city of Najaf were scrapped
yesterday for the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein after
scuffles between rival Shiite factions, as bombs wounded four...
Moqtada Sadr's month-long uprising took a double battering Friday
as Najaf's Shiite religious establishment told the rebel cleric's
militiamen to go home and US troops killed eight of them.
More than 180 people were killed and hundreds wounded in
simultaneous bomb attacks in two Iraqi cities on the holiest day of
the Shiite Muslim calender, with some blaming US forces for lax
security.