Show The Salt 1ileTiihiinc Militants don't sweat Iraq security Outunned: To defend the country the police force must call on the i '''''' ' amara '4 )1 ' i ‘ 1 US Iraqi 1It it 1 i -- 14 I f c a l'' ( ' troops join forces in Najaf - i 1 a e t 4 4 4 44' 4 lk 4 PI 'ts 1 - i It! 1 - 1 - - 4 144- - BY BY TOM IASSETER Knighi Rader Nees Smire - A1'1-- " 1 — 4 ' Vii :r 1 - - Ck 6 ) i 17 4 ' Li 'k s — BAGHDAD been killed and 12 wounded No figures were available for casualties among Iraqi troops who appeared to have been deployed into the fighting in larger numbers than in any previous battle against the insurgents "The battlefield is very fluid at the moment" said Lt Col Gary Johnston operations officer for the llth Marine Expeditionary Force in Najaf 'There are also criminals and gangs among the fighting" The fighting in Najaf has included American fighter US jets dropping bombs Apache helicopters shooting missiles and tanks letting loose with barrages of fire In a speech delivered on alSadr's behalf at Friday prayers at his main mosque in a town next to Najaf a cleric railed "I say America is our enemy and the enemy of the people and we will not accept its partnership America is the greatest of - :4 reviled US militaly '1 v - 4 I Continued from Al ' Nk t r " - '' "S i ' 1 '' !!4 " I ( k' I'll Ntl Ite k LI it- self-style- d Iraqi national guard members armed with light weapons and a grenade ride the back of a police vehicle on Friday militants in the holy during the second day of clashes with Muslim city of Najaf 100 miles south of Baghdad ed rocket-propell- d 's near-epidem- BY ELISE ACKERMAN Knight Riddtr News Service NC — The military hearing to determine whether Pfc Lynndie England for will face a court-martiabusing Iraqi detainees took an :unexpected turn Friday as testimony and the emergence of new tasteless photos undermined the cases of both England's defense and the Army's prosecution : Army prosecutors produced a :sworn statement in which England contradicted her earlier :statements that she was ordered to abuse prisoners And the defense claimed to know of photos in :which key prosecution witnesses were depicted doing pranks of a :lanai nature similar to those that form the basis of indecency charges against England The prosecutors hope to undermine the credibility of England while the defense is attempting to convince a military Judge that the photos provide graphic evidence that many in the Army company assigned to the Abu Ghraib prison were prone to aberrant social behavior During the hearing two Army investigators testified that England had signed a sworn statement following an April 30 Interview at Fort Bragg in which she admitted stepping on detainees and posing in front of naked prisoners Special Agent James Stewart said England also told him no one ordered her to abuse detainees and that her purpose had been to "humiliate" them The directly testimony contradicted England's claim that she and the other five members of the 372nd Military Police Company were softening up detainees at the behest of military interrogators in order to encourage them to cooperate in Investigations Special Agent William Hughes said England did say that personnel from military intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency :'would tell us we were doing a L2wd job and to keep it up" But FORT BRAGG last-minu- t i1 ( England was to unable identify or de- scribe any of those people The de fense team also sought to cast doubt on 4 o ) 'i 1 i l A—"E'-': 114 i ' ' I 1' Lynn& England the Fe Great tax deduction Running or not Kids Scholarships 8854870 4 11illit (11FITili 11 ' ii$voso 0i10A Loi t ------ -- C10 1 - -- - 4 A ' e 6' f i ? 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4:4 i 1 tei ti'''' (!-- ! 0 I D dto4N - 4 I 'Its TO' 101A 8011 s Adding to the tension the nation's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al was secretly Husseini taken out of Najaf and flown to London because of heart problems according to his representatives If al Sistani were to die especially while out of the country massive unrest could follow and whose father also was a grand ayatollah might well try to fill the power vacuum A in London spokesman wouldn't discuss the exact nature of al Sistani's heart problems but said he would have tests Monday The bloodshed raised the specter of a repeat of April's t 7 Hughes said ') 'ABER yeVONMSIMVMOlm ' the form of a declaration by the country's pollee commander saying that "the iiiterim government ordered a combined operation involviag Iraqi military forces and untts from the multinational forcesi" coali- meaning the American-letion of 160000 troops "with the task of regaining control of tlle city" The statement added: now clear that the operations have been a complete success" on Friday in LOOR N Q HOME OFFICE prison-abus- e goverment high-stake- need some heavy machine guns rage at the American presence and RPGs "The Iraqis are frustrated by grenades) because that's what's out the heat the lack of water and the lack of electricity" said Saon the street" do al Dulame the head of an men certainly didn't seem worried about the independent research center in Baghdad "All that we have gotIraqi government or its security ten is talk and promises but force Friday Speaking at the Imam al nothing has actually been done" Khadim shrine In Baghdad's ANAL YSIS and mosque in Sadr City neighone of Baghdad's borhood which was named for predominantly Shiite Muslim neighborhoods late father there are cleric Hazim al Ar4lle long gas lines a of took Falah Hassan al Naqib the typhoid and hepatitis due to poor Iraqi interior minister to task quality water and an electrical for saying that those who were grid that provides only six hours baffling American forces in Na- of power daily for many jaf and elsewhere were gangsters residents who would be run out of Iraq Adel Hamid a vegetable mer"We're warning you that if chant in Sadr City said that over you're going to say these words the course of about 15 months of again we'll take you from your suffering through a lack of basic house and send you to hell" al services he had come to see the Americans as the enemy Arajle said about the minister "The fight will continue and Many in Iraq take Allah willing we will be victopopularity as a sign of the US failure to provide an alternative rious" Hamid said "I will sacriThe militia it seems may not be fice my three boys for the Sadr as much a coordinated fighting movement they are in the Mandi force as an expression of Iraqi Army now to protect the city" (rocket-propelle- A IHtiROVVO Satans" dr evidence damages both sides in case ENew Ththoortaied Pm HA)! MizRAN followers uprising by in which hundreds if not thousands were killed It's also a substantial test of the interim Iraqi government which has positioned itself as being tough on the insurgency but so far has been unable to muster much beyond rounding up common criminals Waeil Abdel-Lati- f the Iraqi minister of state for provincial affairs said a team of Shiite leaders known as the Shiite House had been trying to broker a truce in Najaf which hopefully would lead to calm in the rest of the country The situation in Najaf is significant in one key respect that American troops are now fighting with the approval of Iraq's 5 7 'i A9 Saturday AuguA 7 2004 Q - 1 '' f et- - Iraq — After the past two days of fighting in southern and central Iraq the difference between firebrand cleric Muqtada and Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Maw' 'couldn't be any more clear AlSadr has an army and Maw" doesn't When Al lawi took office the strongman lost little time before declaring that his government wouldn't tolerate the:insurgency that's swept the country But as in previous battles : when Mandi Army militia began to overrun Najaf and several neighborhoods from Baghdad to Basra the Iraqi poand national guard : lice force fought for a while then ran And as in previous battles Iraq's Achilles heel was revealed: To defend their country Allawi and the interim govern ment must go to the American military an institution that's : widely reviled by many Iraqis as - an occupational force run amok Allawi's Cabinet has approved an emergency provision ::that would allow for something :like a state of emergency to be : jleclared He is expected to at least a partial state of emergency at a news briefing scheduled for today - But even if such a measure : were imposed it's not clear that :Iraqi forces have the training or ' equipment to enforce it outside : Baghdad a capital that's looking :increasingly besieged : Or as Marine Col Anthony - Haslam put it Friday in Najaf: -- "We are trying to train them and equip them as best we can but :they just have AK47s and they US-ERA- --°-- --z0 t fit it c1 4 r i'- - V4- - t 11!-1'- Ammmammlimmolm 3°t) Jeii jfI4f Mon-S- et Mon Store liount: 10 AM to 6 PM Fri Until 9 PM a VINTAGE OAK Classic Leather: Oak Maple and Cherry Furnishings iMMEIIOMMOMMall Best Vahaels C23V Bac EtEmicEting Equipment Semt Ciza lE Betted 41 14 IIC (de 4Nsi46 4 I37--)m - Free Hydration Bladder I --1 1fr I wipurchase '25 Woe! d Light Year 3D Sleeping Bag vitt $77?? 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