US Forces Attack Iraqi Holy Ground
World | May 14, 2004, Friday
Intensifying clashes between Mahdi Army's militia and US forces in Najaf have claimed scores of civilian lives. The US attack has reached as far as an Iraqi cemetary, Iraqi holy ground. Photo by WN.
Several US tanks have entered the holy Iraqi city of Najaf blasting guerrilla positions on local cemetery, ground sacred by Iraqis, for the first time. Najaf is a city within a city covering several square miles where Shi'ites from all over the world wish to be buried within sight of its sacred shrines. Civilians were mostly caught in the crossfire with 4 dead and 26 wounded, though many others are believed to have been killed in the cemetery where their bodies still lie. Al-Sadr left the town and preached his anti-American weekly sermon at Kufa, next door to Najaf.
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