Mediators Head for Restive Najaf

World | August 17, 2004, Tuesday // 00:00

An Iraqi delegation was appointed to leave for Najaf bearing a peace proposal, hoping to end the standoff with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. An 8-member team was due to arrive in the city aboard US military helicopters Tuesday afternoon but was delayed because of security reasons. The peace proposal demands that al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia put down its weapons, leave holy shrines where they have taken refuge during the fighting and join Iraq's political process in exchange for amnesty. The Najaf fighting has overshadowed the National Conference, which was supposed to be a revolutionary moment in Iraq's democratic transformation, an unprecedented venue of 1,300 Iraqis from all ethnic and religious groups for vigorous debate over their country's course.

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