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Sadr Militia Still Controls Iraq Shrine -Witnesses

Shi'ite fighters appeared still to be in control of a holy shrine in Najaf on Friday after Iraq's interim government said it had overcome a bloody uprising by seizing the Imam Ali mosque without a shot being fired.

Witnesses in the southern city said Mehdi Army militiamen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr controlled the narrow alleyways leading to the mosque. Police were nowhere to be seen.

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