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...road between Baghdad and Najaf; in Iraq. The al-Jazeera network said last Thursday that it had received a picture of Baldoni's body from a group calling itself the Islamic Army; the group claimed the killing was in response to Italy's refusal to withdraw troops from Iraq. A father of two who ran a successful Milan advertising agency, Baldoni turned to journalism in 1996 and was working in Iraq for the Milan weekly Diario. He is the second Italian hostage killed in Iraq since April...
...when Kerry spoke to the VFW two days later, he attacked Bush's position, using an argument with some merit but of microscopic import in the midst of a presidential campaign: he said it was a "hasty" and "political" plan and certainly not a good negotiating tactic to withdraw troops from Korea while we are trying to get the North Koreans to drop their nuclear program...
...Najaf. And the fact that the three-week battle looks set to end with a mass march by Iraqi Shiites to "save the (Imam Ali) Mosque" is a telling indicator of how the siege changed Iraq's power equation. Sistani has demanded that the U.S. and Iraqi forces withdraw from around the mosque and that Sadr's gunmen leave before he'll enter. The U.S. and the interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi may have no option but to comply, because alienating Sistani, the most influential cleric in Iraq, would be political suicide. Getting Sadr's fighters...
...legislature and imperil his prospects for achieving popular legitimacy. The Najaf issue eclipsed the conference's agenda and dominated discussions on Saturday and Sunday after hundreds of Shiite delegates angrily denounced the planned action in the holy city. Although Allawi rejected delegates' demands that he order U.S. forces to withdraw from the city, he agreed that a new delegation would be sent in the hope of persuading Sadr and his men to vacate the Imam Ali Mosque in exchange for an amnesty that would mark the first step towards integrating them into the political process...
...wants to stay in Iraq forever." MAREK BELKA, Prime Minster of Poland, after discussing with President Bush Poland's plan to withdraw troops from Iraq early next year...