Year: 2004
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Iraqis Ordering Chalabi Arrest; He Vows Fight
August 10, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS and DEXTER FILKINS BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 8 – Ahmad Chalabi, the exile leader who returned to Iraq last year hoping to run the country with American support, was ordered arrested on counterfeiting charges, Iraqi officials said Sunday night. Mr. Chalabi, whose fortunes fell into eclipse during the American…
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U.S. Says Its Grip on Iraqi Militia in Najaf Is Tight
August 10th, 2004 by Alex Berenson and John F. Burns, New York Times NAJAF, Iraq, Aug. 9 – American forces besieging militiamen of a rebel cleric in a shrine and cemetery sacred to Shiite Muslims tightened their cordon on Monday, United States military officials in Baghdad said, and they warned the rebels that they could…
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Iraq’s Premier Takes Hard Line Against Rebels
August 9, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS and ALEX BERENSON BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 8 – Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, reinforcing his reputation as a man ready to deal harshly with his adversaries, flew into the embattled city of Najaf on Sunday and said that there would be “no negotiations or truce” that would spare rebel…
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Tentative accord reached in Najaf to halt fighting
August 8, 2004 By DEXTER FILKINS and JOHN F. BURNS Najaf: Aides to the country’s most powerful Shiite leader said they had reached a tentative agreement on Thursday to end the three-week siege in this Shiite holy city, after a day of chaos and bloodshed here that left at least 74 Iraqis dead and more…
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Marines Pushing Deeper Into City Held by Shiites
By Alex Berenson and John F. Burns NAJAF, Iraq, Aug. 7 – Marine commanders battling Moktada al-Sadr’s rebel militiamen in this Shiite holy city said Saturday that the fighting had cleared the rebels from the ancient cemetery in the heart of the old city, but that more fighting lay ahead in the streets and alleyways…