An Iraqi policeman jumps off the back of a lorry with one of its tires still on fire following an attack near Baghdad. US troops have agreed to suspend patrols in the Shiite holy city of Najaf in a bid to prop up a shaky truce. Photo by AFP
US troops have agreed to suspend patrols in the Shiite holy city of Najaf in a bid to prop up a shaky truce. The coalition put off until Tuesday a scheduled meeting to decide Iraq's first president in the post-Saddam Hussein era amid a fierce political struggle with Iraq's Governing Council. AFP cited a senior coalition official as saying the two main Sunni Muslim contenders, Adnan Pachachi and Ghazi al-Yawar, had been ruled out for the largely ceremonial post.