Sudah cukup peperangan, mengapa di antara dari mereka masih memikirkan Teroris dan menggunakan pembalasdendaman? sebaiknya mereka lebih memikirkan aspirasi masyarakat Irak secara damai dan mengetahui tujuan di Irak.
wassalam, ----------------------- U.S. Troops Fight Cleric Loyalists in Kufa KUFA, Iraq - U.S. soldiers and fighters loyal to a radical Shiite cleric exchanged gunfire here on Saturday, raising new fears about whether a plan to end a seven-week standoff here will hold. Explosions could be heard near Kufa's main mosque, where members of Muqtada al-Sadr's militia had taken up positions. Militia members accused U.S. troops of provoking the gunfight by approaching the city center. Coalition officials said they were attacked by rocket-propelled grenades and they responded by killing the attackers. The main road leading to Kufa was blocked by tires and concrete blocks, forcing cars to take back roads into the city. Members of al- Sadr's militia, the al-Mahdi Army, set up checkpoints and roamed the streets around the mosque carrying Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades. Najaf's governor, Adnan al-Zurufi, complained that al-Sadr was showing no signs of honoring the agreement announced by Shiite leaders earlier this week to end fighting in the Najaf and Kufa areas. "Unfortunately, there have been no positive initiatives from the office of Mr. Muqtada al-Sadr so far," al-Zurufi said. "Armed men are filling the streets and there have been number of attacks on state employees in Kufa." Three Iraqis were reported injured in the exchanges on Saturday. At Kufa's Furat al-Awsat hospital, Ali Moussa, 22, was among those treated for shrapnel wounds. His head was wrapped in a bandage and his black T-shirt was soaked in blood. "I was walking down the street and they started attacking people," he said of the Americans. "They say there is a truce. Where is this truce?" In a sign of the tension, al-Sadr failed to appear at a Kufa mosque where he has preached every Friday � the main Muslim day of worship � since the rebellion began in early April. Aides said his absence Friday was due to security concerns. Attacks on Friday wounded two U.S. soldiers. In a separate incident, mortar shells had also rained down on the main American base in Najaf. Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, coalition deputy chief of operations, reported five attacks against coalition forces in Kufa on Friday and said they "would appear to be violations" of the deal. Coalition spokesman Dan Senor said in Baghdad that occupation authorities still hoped the cease-fire agreement would hold. Coalition authorities sent al-Zurufi a letter outlining their support for the Shiite initiative. Also in Baghdad, the Iraqi Governing Council on Friday chose one of its members, Iyad Allawi, to become prime minister in the new government taking power June 30. The announcement was a surprise to the United Nations (news - web sites), which has been leading the process of choosing the government � hopefully by the end of the month. U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has been in Baghdad for weeks consulting with Iraqis about the makeup of the government. Brahimi "respects" the decision and is willing to work with Allawi to pick the rest of the government, U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said in New York. Eckhard said Brahimi would consult with Allawi to consider others for government posts to gather "the widest possible support of the Iraqi people." "But in the end, it's the Governing Council and the (U.S.-led coalition) that will make the decision," Eckhard. The coalition said it was not a party to the Thursday agreement to end the Najaf and Kufa fighting but would suspend offensive operations. However, U.S. officials said they would continue "security patrols," some of which the militias consider provocative. Despite the agreement, nine mortar shells exploded early Friday on the main U.S. camp in the Najaf area. CNN, which is embedded at the camp, said U.S. soldiers arrested four suspected militiamen, who claimed they were unaware of the order to stop attacks. The U.S. command in Baghdad confirmed that two soldiers were injured when Shiite gunmen fired on their Humvee on a Najaf street but provided no further details. The truce deal announced Thursday provides the Americans a way out of a standoff that threatened to alienate Iraq (news - web sites)'s Shiites � the largest religious community. But U.S. demands for al- Sadr's arrest and disbanding his militia were unmet � and the deal opens the door for a political role for a figure that President Bush (news - web sites) had branded a "thug." The deal also allows for discussions of al-Sadr's future, talks that will certainly stretch past the June 30 handover. The arrest warrant for al-Sadr, however, has not officially been suspended. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! 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