5 G.I.'s Are Killed in Baghdad as Rebels Agree to New Truce in Najaf

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/05/international/middleeast/05figh.html

American troops on the ground after the bombing of a convoy in Baghdad yesterday. Five soldiers were killed and five wounded in the attack, the United States military said.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 4 - While United States commanders worked out a new cease-fire in southern Iraq on Friday, five American soldiers were killed in an attack on their convoy in eastern Baghdad, the United States military said.

Witnesses said the convoy was first hit by a bomb planted alongside the road. When the vehicles stopped, gunmen sprayed the soldiers with machine gun fire. Five soldiers were wounded in the attack.

In the flash point city of Najaf, Moktada al-Sadr, the rebel Shiite cleric, agreed to the second truce in about a month, according to Iraqi officials. Both sides promised to withdraw their soldiers from the city center and turn over security to the local police.

"All the warring parties, the coalition forces and the Mahdi Army militias should leave the two holy cities," the governor of Najaf, Adnan Zurfi said, referring to Najaf and nearby Kufa.

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1. Whaaa? We Are Negotiating With The Same Millitia

That we supposedly defeated?

Well color me shocked.

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2. Why are you posting this as breaking news at 10:30 on a Saturday night

when it happened on Friday morning, and had its own thread then?!?

Be a little more responsible, wouldja?

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