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Living under war shaddow
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-08-19 07:45
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Mays, a young Iraqi
Shi'ite girl, cries after a mortar shell which landed outside the family's
home in a Najaf residential area injured her uncle August 18, 2004. The
leader of a Shi'ite uprising in Iraq agreed on Wednesday to leave a holy
shrine encircled by U.S. marines, hours after the interim government
threatened to storm it and drive out his fighters. But even after the
announcement, explosions and gun fire echoed through the streets as U.S.
forces battled Sadr's Mehdi Army militiamen, whose two-week-old uprising
poses the biggest challenge yet to Iraq's interim government.
[Reuters]
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